Pro-Palestinian protesters confront War Criminal [Ben Gvir] as he leaves event near Yale | CNN (2025-04-23)

c/world · u/technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 86 points

Pro-Palestinian protesters confront Israeli National Security Minister [Ben Gvir] as he leaves event near Yale | CNN (2025-04-23)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/us/yale-university-protest-israel-gaza/index.html

\------

\>\> Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was confronted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New Haven, Connecticut, Wednesday night ...

\>\> “Water bottles were thrown” at Ben Gvir, his office said, when the far-right minister exited a building in front of protesters following a speech he gave at Shabtai, a private Jewish society at Yale, not officially affiliated with the university.

\>\> Earlier Wednesday evening as the event began, protesters crowded the sidewalk outside the gated building...

\>\> Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators also gathered at Yale University Tuesday night to protest Ben Gvir’s visit.

\>\> A #Yale spokesperson told CNN an “unregistered group” of 200 people not “affiliated with any recognized student organization” gathered Tuesday ...

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Comments

u/RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · -3 points

No he should not. No one should have to face abuse like this daily in prison. He should be locked up and treated better than he would treat others

u/Hegar@fedia.io · 12 points

>as a teenager he was associated with terrorists.

As a teenager he was the head of the youth wing of a group the israeli government deemed terrorists.

>a statement about a Christian politician, and like a day later he was killed.

He personally held up yitzhak rabin's car hood ornament at a press conference and said "we can get to your car, we can get to you" shortly before the then prime minister was assassinated by a fellow far right israeli.

Ben Gvir is a lifelong, on-the-record proponent of genocide who was officially labelled a terrorist by israel and almost certainly helped kill yitzhak rabin and end the peace process.

u/ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org · 22 points

Gvir should face this _at the very least,_ every day for the rest of his life.

justice is not a natural phenomena, we have to make it and uphold it as a culture. would love for that to be possible some day.

u/NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 18 points

Stop calling them pro-palestine. It's antithetical to what's really happening. People are against genocide. That's it, and they're being deported, and shamed for it. For fucks sake, we teach in schools about the holocaust, and say shit like "never again", all the while providing these fuckers with financial assistance and weapons to commit genocide.

u/givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 12 points

Israel excused him of the compulsory military service because as a teenager he was associated with terrorists.

His group made a statement about a Christian politician, and like a day later he was killed.

About a week before the attack in Israel, this guy was running around saying spitting on Christians is basically a Jewish religious tradition and as evidence pointed to a church that lots of Israelis make a point to spit on once a day.

Like, "religious extremist" gets used a lot these days, but this guy is on a crazy level. And Bibi put him in charge of the police.

u/qaz@lemmy.world · 11 points

For the people who don't know who he is

Ben-Gvir is a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, whose "political background lies in Kahanism - a violently racist movement that supports the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands". He has a long history of anti-Arab activism leading to dozens of indictments and at least eight convictions of crimes including incitement to racism and support for, as well as possession of propaganda of, a terrorist organization (the now illegal political party Kach). As a lawyer, he is known for defending Jews accused of Jewish extremist terrorism on trial in Israel.

(Wikipedia)