Jewish Students at Yale React to Anti-Israel Demonstrations on Campus
“I was trying to access the space. This is a communal space that is supposed to be available to students and that all students pay a lot of tuition to be able to use”
You can read the backstory on these protests here. Some of these students found the display upsetting, and who could blame them?
FOX News reports:
Yale Jewish students speak out after anti-Israel demonstrators refuse to let them walk through campus
Jewish students at Yale University who were subjected to verbal abuse and had their right of way blocked on campus by anti-Israel demonstrators are speaking out about the antisemitism they’ve experienced.
“This type of discrimination and ongoing harassment of Jewish students on campus has not only disrupted, but completely shattered the framework that I had and that many of my peers had upon arriving at Yale,” student Netanel Crispe told Fox News Digital.
“The one word I would choose is devastating.”
Crispe, 22, was seen on video this week with a human chain of anti-Israel demonstrators barring his way as he attempted to walk through Yale’s Beinecke Plaza. An anti-Israel tent encampment had sprung up on the New Haven, Conn., campus ahead of a Wednesday speech by firebrand Israeli right-wing minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Gvir had been invited to deliver a speech on Yom Hashoa, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, by Shabtai, a Jewish intellectual society not officially affiliated with Yale. Demonstrators were seen on video hurling water bottles at Ben Gvir and attendees of the lecture as they were exiting the Shabtai building on Wednesday.
Crispe, a senior who is studying U.S. history, said that when he got word that a new “emergency” anti-Israel protest had sprung up on Tuesday, he decided to walk around the plaza to show that he and other Jews wouldn’t be driven out of what should be a communal university space. When the demonstrators saw him roaming the grounds, he said they called out instructions to form a human chain and bar his way.
He said they similarly obstructed the path of other Jewish students attempting to exercise their right to walk through university grounds. Crispe alleged that the demonstrators would break the human chain to allow non-Jewish students to pass through.
“I was trying to access the space. This is a communal space that is supposed to be available to students and that all students pay a lot of tuition to be able to use,” Crispe said.
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Look at the women in the pic above. Fermenters of chaos because of their feelings, ignorance, and stupidity.
God organize, walk through together, and dare them to stop you.
Fomenters. Who knows. Maybe the ferment their own wine.
Also, start nothing but darn well finish it.
now in america you have to justify why you want the american dream
Rip off the masks. They can keep the scarves, which don’t actually hide the face.
There’s nobody there in full niqab, so there’s no religious issue with exposing the face. Devout people who would wear niqab don’t do crap like encampments and human chains.
42 USC 1985.