Members of the group Students for Justice in Palestine, a student chapter at Yale Law School, expressed outrage after another group, Law Students for Israel, invited a former IDF soldier to speak about his experiences in Gaza.
The Washington Free Beacon‘s Aaron Sibarium reports:
Yale Law School’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the group that celebrated the murder of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7 and praised the architects of the attack as “martyrs,” is calling on the school to cancel an event with a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, arguing that his presence on campus will make students unsafe.
“We implore the administration to take seriously the implications of this militarization of campus,” Yale Law Students for Justice in Palestine wrote in a Feb. 1 Instagram post. “The platforming of an IDF combatant recently returned from Israel’s atrocities in Gaza makes many of us—especially Palestinian Arab, Muslim, Black, and brown students—feel physically and psychologically unsafe and unwelcome in our own school.”
The demand to cancel the event, which is scheduled for Monday evening, comes weeks after the same group called on Yale to “protect free speech.” It’s part of a larger campaign to vilify the Jewish state and keep IDF soldiers off the law school’s campus, where some students responded to the Oct. 7 attacks by defending Hamas and mocking Jewish students who condemned the violence.
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Jewish law students had to suffer groups like Students for Palestine crowing after the brutality of October 7, I’ll remind you. If law students cannot handle a private dinner they find disagreeable occurring in a five-mile vicinity of their persons, then it would be in everyone’s best interest if the offended parties withdrew from school and took to remote work such as oil speculation or animal husbandry. An individual, particularly one interested in legally representing the views and interests of others, who is incapable of existing alongside those with whom he disagrees is unsuited for civil society and would be wise to excuse himself from it.