Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s event on Monday at Princeton University in New Jersey was disrupted by protesters who interrupted his speech and staged a walkout, with the event eventually ending due to an emergency alarm that sounded.
Bennet is a key opposition figure to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a contender to form the next government. He has also long been vocal about preventing the formation of a Palestinian state and has boasted he “killed many Arabs, and there is no problem with that” during his time in the Israeli forces.
Video footage provided to Middle East Eye showed that Bennett remained on stage and kept speaking with the audience as the fire alarm sounded. Other videos posted online by students confirmed that he was not escorted out as a security measure despite the alarm ringing.
A statement provided to MEE by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Princeton said that “dozens of audience members conducted a peaceful walkout, chanting ‘Naftali Bennett, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide’ along with statements calling him a war criminal”.
No justice, no peace ✌️
shameful that we allow Israeli war crimes cheerleaders/terrorists to walk our streets.
Just their killing of journalists, doctors and aid workers alone should be enough for any civilized country to lock them up and charge them for mass murder the second they set foot on our soil.
Not only is our tolerating genociders flatly illegal by our existing laws and treaty signatures, but it pisses in the faces of every veteran who died fighting for their country.