The Students For Justice In Palestine Yale chapter is no longer recognized at Yale. University officials derecognized the chapter after their campus protests on Tuesday.

Yale University stripped the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, Yalies4Palestine, of its status as a recognized student group on Wednesday after it established a short-lived encampment. The decision may give insight into how Yale president Maurie McInnis, who called the police to arrest student protesters in her last job, will combat anti-Israel agitators at the Ivy League university.

In a Wednesday afternoon statement, Yale revealed that university staff had warned Yalies4Palestine the day before the encampment that “further violations would jeopardize the group’s privileges” during a meeting about prior infractions. The encampment, the statement said, violated Yale’s “time, place, and manner policies.” It also pointed to “disturbing antisemitic conduct at the gathering,” which may refer to video of anti-Israel agitators blocking Jewish students from accessing campus space.

These protestors not only gathered on the campus despite warnings, they sent up at least eight tents and were planning to camp there for who knows how long. There’s also record of some of these protestors harassing and blocking Jewish students from access to campus buildings.

Jewish students aren’t allowed to walk through Yale’s campus anymore! pic.twitter.com/ywa8Z7V6KU

— Netanel Crispe (@NetanelCrispe) April 23, 2025

These same student protestors also, on Wednesday evening, protested and confronted Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Some of them went a little further than that. 

“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.

The videos show dozens of demonstrators shouting and chanting at the minister as he exits, smiling and waving at the protesters. “Minister Ben Gvir refused to leave the scene and made a V sign at them, as a sign of victory,” his office said.

Photos published on social media show a water bottle apparently being thrown at Ben Gvir and a group of people surrounding him.

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Earlier Wednesday evening as the event began, protesters crowded the sidewalk outside the gated building while chanting “Free Palestine,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Yale, your hands are red.” As attendees made their way into the venue, protesters yelled “shame” repeatedly and booed.

Mitchell Dubin, a Yale senior and member of the Shabtai Society, told CNN “Shabtai does not seek to legitimize or delegitimize world leaders. Instead, it provides a space where ideas are interrogated with rigor, policies are challenged with integrity, and civil discourse is preserved even under strain.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators also gathered at Yale University Tuesday night to protest Ben Gvir’s visit.

“Demonstrators.” Such a benign word to describe a group of people who have such a great love for terrorists and a virulent hatred for Jews. 

Anti-Israel Yale protesters throwing water bottles at Jewish students pic.twitter.com/a4nFYLQ1Mk

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) April 24, 2025

Yale tried to shut the protestors down on Tuesday night. But, in my opinion, they didn’t try very hard. 

Around 200 keffiyeh-clad protesters had gathered in the center of campus by 9:30 p.m., formed a circle around the encampment, and chanted, “We will honor all our martyrs.” They prevented at least three Jewish students from entering the area, shined a light in their faces, and called one “scum,” according to videos posted to X.

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A Yale administrator began handing out cards to protesters around 10:00 p.m., notifying them that they were “in violation of Yale University policies regarding free expression, peaceable assembly, and/or disruption.” The notice went on, “Please stop your current action immediately. If you do not, you may risk university disciplinary action and/or arrest.”

Yale issued an 11:00 p.m. deadline for the students to dismantle the encampment, but the organizers didn’t announce its dissolution until around 11:30 p.m., citing threats of “retribution” from the administration.

They handed out cards and asked ever so nicely if they would pack up all their protest crap and leave. As we’ve seen since just after October 7, treating these protestors with kid gloves has NOT worked out for any of the universities …AT. ALL.

At least Yale has now told the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter that they are no longer recognized. That’s A step in the right direction. But what Yale SHOULD be doing is expelling all of them. 

These protestors are engaged in harassment and intimidation of those they hate. A protest is one in which you along with others work to make your voice heard. A protest is NOT one that engages in shutting down others right to free speech, assembly, tries to prevent someone from attending meetings or class, or engages in intimidation. 

All you have to do is imagine that this Jewish student is black and that the people blocking him are 1950's era Southern whites and it becomes immediately obvious that Yale is tolerating the most vile racism and the gov't needs to intervene https://t.co/V0BZmr4cbw

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) April 23, 2025

That’s what these pro-Palestinian chapters are doing on campuses around the country. And the schools continue to LET THEM do this. 

It's time to terminate federal funding to Yale University. The university is violating the Civil Rights Act. Until it abolishes DEI, stops this intimidation, and ceases all discriminatory policies, no more taxpayer cash. https://t.co/cwYiPowEX8

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 23, 2025

I’m 1000% on board with that! But instead of expelling them, Yale just flaps their hands and says ‘you aren’t recognized anymore.’  Some more of that useless gentle parenting at work. 

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