PNN – More than 200 pro-Palestinian students at Yale University camped out in protest of the visit of Israel’s Homeland Security Minister Itamar Ben-Giver to the United States.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the New York Times newspaper wrote: The protesting student group wrote in a message published on Instagram: “Students’ resistance to repression and censorship is unwavering,” “Support Yale students,” “All eyes are on Yale University.”
Students held a protest rally on Tuesday evening in protest of the visit on Wednesday of the far-right Israeli minister to a private association affiliated with Yale University.
The Yale University-affiliated Daily News also reported that the protests initially began with the presence of 25 students, and by 9:30 p.m. (US local time), their number had rapidly increased, and they set up protest tents despite university regulations that do not allow the formation of structures such as tents or camps.
One of the organizers of these protests announced through a loudspeaker: We are here and we will stay here all night.
Ben Goyer is visiting the United States for the first time and is scheduled to appear in the cities of New Haven and New York.
According to a report in the Yale Student Journal, Shmully Hecht, founder of the Shabtai Jewish Association, defended the invitation to the Zionist official, claiming that such events have preserved Yale University as a safe haven for Jews in the current toxic society of extremism.
This student protest is the latest in a series of protests at Yale University against the Israeli war in Gaza and the university’s ties to military contractors, and it coincides with Yale University welcoming 1,300 new students.
A spokesman for the Yale University pro-Palestinian group, Somod, said the action was “an autonomous group of students protesting Ben-Gwer’s presence and Yale’s silence on the matter.”