"We implore the administration to take seriously the implications of this militarization of campus," Yale Law Students for Justice in Palestine wrote in a Feb. 1 Instagram post. "The platforming of an IDF combatant recently returned from Israel's atrocities in Gaza makes many of us—especially Palestinian Arab, Muslim, Black, and brown students—feel physically and psychologically unsafe and unwelcome in our own school."

The demand to cancel the event, which is scheduled for Monday evening, comes weeks after the same group called on Yale to "protect free speech." It's part of a larger campaign to vilify the Jewish state and keep IDF soldiers off the law school's campus, where some students responded to the Oct. 7 attacks by defending Hamas and mocking Jewish students who condemned the violence.