CPSC pointed out that Bennet “has personally participated in war crimes: namely the Qana massacre that killed over 100 civilians and UN peacekeepers.”
Hundreds of students and activists demonstrated outside Columbia University in the US on Tuesday in protest at the visit by former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet.
Bennet attended an event hosted by the Kraft Center for Jewish Life, Columbia/Barnard Hillel, and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs’s Institute for Global Politics, according to the Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition (CPSC), an organizer of the protest.
The CPSC said in a statement that a leaked email from university sources revealed that the event was intended to be kept confidential, stating “The information in this email and the details of the event, including the identity of our guest, are confidential.”
“This raises questions about the university’s transparency and its apparent attempt to downplay the controversy surrounding Bennet’s visit,” the CPSC said.
The movement noted that Bennet’s “history of inciting violence and advocating for harsh and discriminatory policies against Palestinians, alongside his assertion, ‘They are not children, they are terrorists,’ reaffirms his status as a war criminal.” (more...)
Protests Erupt at Columbia University over Naftali Bennet’s Visit
ACTION ALERT: EMERGENCY CITY WIDE PROTEST AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, TODAY AT 6:30 PM, 116th and Broadway. @ColumbiaSIPA is hosting prime minister Naftali Bennett on our campus. Bennett is an extremist who called all Palestinian children “terrorists”. @JVPColumbia 🧵 pic.twitter.com/4haUJa7sqU
— Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition (CPSC) (@Columbia_psc) March 4, 2025
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