Dozens of students demonstrated this morning (Wednesday, 23/4/25) at the Technion campus in Haifa to protest the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators stood along the road near the campus and held signs in various languages – Arabic, Hebrew and English – including calls for an end to the fighting and the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Among the messages that appeared on the signs: “STOP THE WAR,” “Starving the population is a war crime,” and “STARVATION IS A WAR CRIME.” Some protesters also held pictures of children and victims of the fighting, as part of a message that presents the protest as humanitarian and not political.
Fury at the Technion: “On Holocaust Day – a shame”
However, the timing of the demonstration provoked strong reactions from students on campus. The protest took place on Holocaust Remembrance Day, at a time when events were being held at the Technion to commemorate the victims, including “Remembrance in the Living Room” and communion ceremonies.
A student at the Technion told “Hai Fe”:
“I have to say – today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. While we are holding memorial events in the living room at the Technion, they are standing outside and demonstrating. Shame and disgrace.”
According to her, this is an act that expresses a complete insensitivity to the nature of the day and its meaning for the Jewish people, especially on an academic campus in Israel.
Academic institution facing social tension
According to Technion sources, the demonstration was a private initiative of students and is not part of an official activity of the institution. However, its very existence in the heart of campus on such a charged day provoked harsh reactions and exacerbated the social tension between student groups on campus.
It was learned that the police dispersed the protesters.
In conclusion, while the demonstrators sought to protest the situation in Gaza and call for a ceasefire, many students and the general public saw the protest as a provocative act that denigrates the memory of the Holocaust and hurts the public's feelings on such a significant day.
The Technion informed Lahi Pa:
This was a privately organized demonstration outside the gate that took place quietly and under police presence. Unfortunately, when the demonstration was dispersed and returned to campus, a number of students from Haifa University chose to create a deliberate provocation in front of the cameras in order to stir up trouble.
The Technion's security unit arrived at the scene, calmed the situation, and the students returned to their classrooms.
Shai Glick, CEO of Betselmo, said:
I call on the Technion to clarify to students that even a demonstration that is only "at the Technion gates" is prohibited. It is clear that the students' goal is to use campus resources and provoke provocation. Therefore, I demand that it be clarified that any demonstration within a kilometer radius of the Technion is a violation of the Technion's disciplinary regulations. To the extent that students choose to demonstrate on a public street, that is their full right, as long as the demonstration is legal, however, standing at the Technion gates and harming those entering the Technion gates will be prohibited from now on, and any such violation will result in disciplinary punishment.
This is what happens when there's a damned Yoamashish
In any other country, they would have been beaten to death and taken straight to the emergency room of the Italian hospital in Nazareth.
Poor souls, including everyone who came here and supports the existence of this futile and provocative demonstration.
It is clear in the sunlight who and what are the protesters…
This is not surprising. What is surprising and sad is that the Technion administration was not able to handle this in time and prevent this disgrace.
Demonstration for the hungry in Gaza????
really!!!!!
And what about a demonstration to free our starving, tortured, wounded, and chained hostages? The aforementioned wretches will not demonstrate for that.
Humanitarianism is a concept that needs to be worked both ways. It turns out that this simple human wisdom is not taught in the faculties of scholars at the Technion.
To everyone who protested there, I have only one word to say to you – shame on you.
Poor souls. Protest for the release of the kidnapped.
The war in Gaza is just beginning.
According to security officials, only a quarter of the tunnels were destroyed, so fighting will probably continue for several more months/years.
It's a shame that academic institutions don't make military service in the IDF a primary admission requirement.
The shame is the war and the government, not the demonstration.
You are delusional, you have probably forgotten the reality of all the abductees who have gone through and are going through the Holocaust in their lives.
You are 100% right, the government is the biggest shame!!!!
Holocaust Remembrance Day is tomorrow. Today is the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Why do you as an organization even give space to a response from someone in his photo???
The statement they are making is to abolish democracy in the country!
What kind of country would we be if it were forbidden to hold a legal demonstration?
Another hollow slogan of the delusional left..."Abolish democracy" lol...
The hatred, the hatred….
On a day like this, there is actually a place for a demonstration that recalls the suffering of human beings wherever they are. Unfortunately, we have become a society indifferent to human suffering and focus only on our own pain. How can we expect the nations of the world to show empathy towards us, when we ourselves ignore and sometimes even support the continued suffering of a defenseless population? This indifference to the suffering of others may return us to that dark place with which we identify – but this time from the other side of the fence.
Yair, you are invited to go to Judea and Samaria and ask for sensitivity to the plight of the Jewish people who have suffered for many years and gone through terrible things. Write down the answer for me if you are lucky enough to live after the visit.
Their "protector" Hamas is the attacker and Israel is the attacked. You sound like a typical 16 year old progressive American..
Are you serious? Are you aware that there is no hunger, but that Hamas is taking over deliveries and hundreds of consignments of supplies are rotting on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing because 'aid workers' cannot or do not want to distribute to those in need?
At least ours don't wear masks, you can see them and not be bothered
How about "in the heart of campus"? In the picture, you can clearly see MALAL Street outside the gate...
Not to mention that Holocaust Remembrance Day is *exactly* the right day to protest to stop the Holocaust that Israel is committing in Gaza. Our whole lesson from the story is "never again", right?
According to the photo, the protesters demonstrated *outside* the Technion campus.
And today is not yet our Holocaust Remembrance Day, it begins tonight…
But it is true that an important "living room remembrance" event is taking place at the Technion, and perhaps precisely when we remember what they did to us, to our people, we will remind ourselves of what and who *we* want to be in relation to another people, and in particular children, women, and the elderly; what they did to us that we will not do to others.
There is nothing in this small demonstration or a denigration of our Holocaust. On the contrary, it is a call to look at what is happening now from the perspective of terrible memory.
disgusting
This is called provocation.
They did this with democratic right and wisdom, because precisely on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, this PR exercise for beginners will grab headlines.
The war in Gaza is intended for one thing: to preserve the satanic right-wing government headed by the tyrant and criminal Bibi Netanyahu, while sacrificing soldiers and civilian lives in Gaza.
There was a kidnapped person who did not leave Gaza alive following the war.
The war will exact a very heavy price.
Exactly on Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is the right time for such a demonstration. A demonstration against the total animalization of Israeli society.