{"id":39810,"date":"2025-04-25T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/why-did-israeli-extremist-ben-gvir-speak-at-yale-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:03:47","slug":"why-did-israeli-extremist-ben-gvir-speak-at-yale-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/why-did-israeli-extremist-ben-gvir-speak-at-yale-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Israeli extremist Ben-Gvir speak at Yale? | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shabtai, a Jewish society based at Yale, hosted the extremist far-right politician convicted of supporting terrorism. Why did Yale allow this?<\/p>\n<p>Let me start with a statement that should be obvious: deliberately starving 2 million people \u2013 half of whom are children \u2013 is indefensible. It is not complicated, it is not a nuanced situation that requires a PhD to parse. It is not an unfortunate and unavoidable part of war. It is quite simply indefensible. I would say that it is also very much prohibited by international human rights law, but that doesn\u2019t seem to exist any more, does it?<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/16\/no-humanitarian-aid-gaza-israeli-minister-israel-katz-hamas\">no food, water or medicine<\/a> has been allowed into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\">Gaza<\/a> for almost two months. It is impossible to know just how bad the situation really is because Israel has imposed a media blackout on the region. However, aid organizations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/thousands-of-children-in-gaza-malnourished-under-israels-food-blockade-aid-groups-say\">have said<\/a>: \u201cThe Gaza Strip is now likely facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the 18 months\u201d since the war began. Thousands of children are malnourished. Childhood malnutrition, I can\u2019t stress enough, has long-term consequences. An entire generation\u2019s future has been violently stolen from them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/25\/itamar-ben-gvir-yale-shabtai-israel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabtai, a Jewish society based at Yale, hosted the extremist far-right politician convicted of supporting terrorism. Why did Yale allow this? Let me start with a statement that should be obvious: deliberately starving 2 million people \u2013 half of whom are children \u2013 is indefensible. It is not complicated, it is not a nuanced situation &#8230; <a title=\"Why did Israeli extremist Ben-Gvir speak at Yale? | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/why-did-israeli-extremist-ben-gvir-speak-at-yale-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why did Israeli extremist Ben-Gvir speak at Yale? | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}