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

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>> 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 …

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    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.