Betrayal of Students at Yale's Jewish Home on Campus

As former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was speaking on the second floor of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University on Jan. 21, students affiliated with Yalies4Palestine and Jews for a Ceasefire had commandeered the main lobby.

There, in the center of Yale’s Jewish communal building, protesters chanted and sang slogans like “End the occupation,” “From New Haven to Gaza,” “Tell Yale, divest from war” and “Naftali Bennett, we shall not be moved.” The rants to “divest from war” echoed public calls to support the antisemitic BDS campaign by Yalies4Palestine and Yale Jews for Ceasefire.