“The Definery of contradictions”: Yale banned a Palestinian group amid the visit of Bin Ghaffir Gaza News

Yale University has become the latest institution in the United States ban A pro -Palestine group, this time for the protests against a visit by the Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar bin Ghafir.

On Wednesday, the Ben-GVIR station in New Haven, Connecticut, caused anger, as the demonstrators criticized the minister’s support for the increasing attacks on Gaza, RecentlyHis calls to bomb “food and assistance” in the Palestinian territories.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera, Raed Jarrar, director of the call to democracy for the Arab world now (DAWN), described the university’s silence on Ben-GVIR, who “publicly called for genocide”, and his subsequent repression on the demonstrators “is not just a moral contradiction-it is moral and legal failure.”

The demonstrations started on Tuesday night when the demonstrators gathered on the campus and began to create tents in a short -term camp. While only a few hours last, the scene was similar to the protests on the camp I swept American universities last year, and often provokes repression and political changes from officials.

The next day, Yale said in a statement that the camp has violated its policies related to the use of external spaces and students who were warned or punished in previous incidents will face an “immediate disciplinary procedure.”

He added that the university was investigating “fears … about the inconvenience of anti -Semitic behavior in the assembly” without providing any details.

The administration also said that the Yalies4Palestine will lose its official status to send “social media calls to others to join the event” and to take later the credit for this event.

In a statement to the student newspaper, Yale Daily News, a group of protesters supporting the picnic, denied that the event belongs to any group.

Then the protests continued on Wednesday night when Bin Ghafir arrived in a speech in Shabay, a private Jewish community describing himself as his “headquarters at Yale University” although he does not officially belong to or fall into a real estate owned by the university.

Bin Ghaffir briefly mocked the demonstrators of what his office said that the CN network was the “Victory Mark”, where he was met with chants of “shame on you”, according to the event’s video.

His office later said that a bottle of water was thrown from the crowd, which included students and non -teachers, and was unharmed.

“Take off students … Yale will not save”

Yale’s latest penalty for demonstrators supporting Palestine comes during a A broader pressure campaign At the best universities through the administration of President Donald Trump.

While former President Joe Biden was seen as supporting the campaign against the pro -events protests, which he described widely in April last year as “anti -Semitic”, the Trump administration has escalated in the response.

Using the allegations of “anti -Semitism”, the Trump administration has sought to deport the undergraduate demonstrators, and it has been frozen or threatened to freeze federal funding for many higher institutions, including Columbia University in New York and Harvard University In Massachusetts, if they do not agree to a series of political changes.

Throughout the protest movement, the organizers have repeatedly stabbed the idea that such anti -Semitic demonstrations, referring to the regular participation of Jewish students and the coordination of rare cases of anti -Jewish data in open demonstrations often.

In their statement conducted by the Student newspaper, the demonstrators at Yale University accused officials of declining harshly to avoid resorting to the Trump administration.

And they said: “Attacking students and isolating community members did not save Harvard University or Colombia. Yale will not save.”

Yale did not respond to Al -Jazeera’s request to comment on whether concerns about the Trump administration’s response had informed her disciplinary actions or if she had any response to Bin Ghafir’s visit.

For its part, Harmet Delon, the assistant prosecutor of the Civil Rights Department of the Ministry of Justice, responded to a video on X showing that the demonstrators refuse to break a human chain to allow the student to pass through their classes on the campus.

The post claimed: “Jewish students are not allowed to walk through the Yale campus anymore!”

Dhillon wrote that her office is “tracking activities related to Yale, and he is in contact with affected students.”

While critics said the heavy responses to the pro -Palestine demonstrators had become common in the United States, some observers said that the incompatibility in Yale was particularly amazing.

In 2008, Bin Ghaffir was convicted by an Israeli court to incite racism and support a “terrorist” organization, the institution CACH groupWhich supported the annexation and cleansing of the Palestinian territories.

He has called for countless military operation in Gaza, where UN experts already say that Israel is committing “genocide.”

Israel has appealed to committing war crimes under international law in Gaza. Recently, he posted on X that he had told “senior Republican officials” at Mar-A-Lago in Trump, Florida, that Israel should detonate “food and assistance warehouses.”

“The deepest contradiction”

Iman Abdi, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, said that Yale’s silence on Ben Ghafir speaks in an organization claiming to be based at the university, “it reveals the deepest contradictions in our society and in these institutions that are supposed to be dedicated to truth and critical thought.”

“(Bin Ghaffir) does not face a red line,” she said. “But people who protest can face severe consequences.”

She said: “This is a moment when universities are fighting for their life and trying to argue for the American audience that they deserve to be savings in the face of the Trump attack.” “However, ethical courage does not appear.”