The University of Yale has become the last main institution in the United States to ban a pro-palestine group, this time for protests against a visit by the Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of the extreme right.
Ben-Gvir’s stop near the university in New Haven, Connecticut, caused outrageous outrage when the protesters criticized the minister’s support for attacks on Gaza, and more recently, their calls to bombard “food and help deposits” in the Palestinian territory.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Raed Jarrar, the director of Defense of Democracy for the Arab world now (Dawn), described the silence of the University about Ben-Gvir, who “has openly requested genocide”, and his subsequent repression of a failure of the Morale Protestants. “
The demonstrations were Tuesday night when the protesters gathered on the campus and begged to establish tents in a short duration camp. Although it lasted only a few hours, the scene was similar to the protests of the camp that are inclined in the universities of the United States last year, or caused repressions and changes in the policies of the administrators.
The next day, Yale said in a statement that the camp had violated its policies related to the use of outdoor spaces and students who had warned or punished in the previous incidents would face “immediate disciplinary actions.”
He added that the university was investigating “concerns … about disturbing anti -Semitic behavior at the meeting” without providing any detail.
The Administration also said that the Yalies4palestine student organization would lose its official status for sending “calls on social networks so that others join the event” and for subsequent credit for the event.
In a statement to the student newspaper, Yale Daily News, a group of pro-Palestinian protesters denied that the event was affiliated or planned by any group.
The protests continued on Wednesday night when Ben-Gvir arrived for a speech in Shabtai, a private Jewish society that describes herself as “based on the University of Yale”, although he is not formally affiliated with the location.
Ben-Gvir Letterly made fun of the protesters with what his office told CNN was a gesture of “victory sign” as he was with “shame” channels, according to the video of the event.
Later, his office said he had thrown a bottle of water from the crowd, which included students and not students, and that he was unharmed.
‘Attacking the students … Save Yale won’
Yale’s last punishment for pro-pawn protesters is the duration of a broader pressure campaign on the best universities by the administration of President Donald Trump.
While former President Joe Biden was seen as support for repressions in pro-palestinian protests, which are described in general in April of last year “anti-Semitic”, the Trump administration has intensified the answer.
Using “anti -Semitism” claims, the Trump administration has tried to deport the protesters of the non -citizen Palestine University and has frozen or threatened to freeze federal funds for several main institutions, including Columbia University in New York and Harvard University in Massachusetts, if you do not agree on a series of changes in policies.
Through the protest movement, the organizers have repeatedly challenged the notion that such manifestations are anti -Semitic, pointing out regular participation or Jewish students and rejected rare instances of antijudia statements made often publicly made.
In his statement carried by the student newspaper, Yale Pro-Palestinian protesters accused the administrators of down in a privileged way to avoid the Trump administration appeal.
“Attacking students and alientes to the members of the community did not save Harvard or Columbia. Save Yale won,” they said.
Yale did not respond to the request for Al Jazeera of comments on whether concerns about a Trump administration response reported their disciplinary actions or if he had any response to Ben-Gvir’s visit.
For his part, Harmet Dhillon, the attorney general of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice, responded to a video about X that shows the protesters who refused to break a human chain to allow a student to pass through their ranks on the campus.
The publication said: “Jewish students can no longer walk through the Yale Campus!”
Dhillon wrote that his office is “tracking worrying activities in Yale, and is in contact with affected students.”
While critics said that heavy responses to pro-Palestinian protesters have become common in the United States, some observers said the display on display in YALE has been privilegedly.
Ben-Gvir was sentenced in 2008 by an Israeli court to promote racism and support a “terrorist” organization, the founded group Kach, which supported the annexation and ethnic cleaning of the Palestinian territories.
He has asked for a military operation without restrictions in Gaza, where UN experts already say that Israel is committing “genocidal acts.”
He has asked Israel to commit what would constitute war crimes under international law in Gaza. More recent, he posted in X that he told “senior Republican officials” on the Trump Mar-Lago farm in Florida that Israel should bombard “food and help deposits.”
‘Deater contradiction’
Eman Abdelhadi, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, said Yale’s silence with respect to Ben-Gvir speaking in an organization that claims to be based on the university “exposes the deepest contradictions in our society and in the Totty Seabosed Beaty Seabosed Seabosed Seabosse Institutes.”
“[Ben-Gvir] He doesn’t face a red line, “he said.” But people who protest can face serious consequences. “
“This is a time when universities are fighting for their already Trypes lives to argue to the American public they are winning in front of Trump’s attack,” he said. “And yet, they don’t show moral courage.”
