The Media Line: Princeton Investigating After Talk by Israeli Former Prime Minister Disrupted

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Princeton Investigating After Talk by Israeli Former Prime Minister Disrupted

By The Media Line Staff

Princeton University is investigating after a speech earlier this week by Israeli former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was disrupted, The Daily Princetonian reported on Wednesday.

According to the student publication, dozens of protesters chanted “Naftali Bennett, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide,” before walking out. Another student later yelled at Bennett for several minutes, and eventually the fire alarm was pulled.

Bennett posted a video on social media showing his response to one of the disruptors. “Instead of whining for the last 80 years and building your future, you have focused on killing Jews. It’s time that the Palestinians stopped whining and started building their future,” he told the heckler, who has been identified as activist Sayel Kayed.

Posting about the event in Hebrew on X, Bennett wrote, “The Palestinians are killing and whining. A Palestinian activist tried to blow up my lecture with shouts of ‘genocide,’ etc., so I told him the truth.”

Jewish students at Princeton described multiple instances of antisemitism by those protesting the talk, including a protester yelling “Go back to Europe,” and another making the hand signal of an inverted triangle, an apparent reference to the symbol used by Hamas to mark targets.

University president Christopher Eisgruber described behavior at the talk as “reprehensible and intolerable.” “The university is investigating and will pursue disciplinary measures as appropriate, to the extent any members of the Princeton University community are implicated,” he wrote in a statement.

He also issued an apology to Bennett.

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