Bedouin students held a rally this morning (Monday) at Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva to mark Nakba Day at the initiative of Hadash. The students waved Palestinian flags and Jewish students from the "If You Will" movement stood in front of them with Israeli flags.
A riot broke out at the university as the two sides faced each other.
Shai Rosengarten, head of the activists' wing of the "If You Will" movement, criticized the fact that the university did not allow more protesters to enter.
"We strongly condemn the decision of Ben-Gurion University not to allow law-abiding citizens and taxpayers to enter and wave Israeli flags in its territory. Waving PLO flags in academic institutions should not pass in silence, we will continue to fight for Zionist values anywhere and anytime," Rosengarten said.
The demonstration at Ben-Gurion University, Photo: Dudu Greenspan
Ortal Perlman Shmueli, one of the founders of the Negev Promotion Forum and a former member of the Be'er Sheva City Council in response to a riot at Ben-Gurion University: "Study, they did not come to campus to study but to cause a commotion. The university administration must deny those provocateurs the scholarships and suspend them immediately. Woe to the same shame."
The chair of the MLAG, Minister of Education Shasha Bitton, spoke with the president of the university, Prof. Daniel Haimovich, and said that "the pictures we saw this morning are unacceptable. Or damage to state symbols will also examine such incidents. '
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