Hundreds of demonstrators in New Haven, Conn., gathered late on Wednesday to denounce a visit by Israel’s far-right national security minister, who had been invited to speak at an event near Yale University’s campus.

Some demonstrators hurled water bottles at the official, Itamar Ben-Gvir, as he left the event at Shabtai, a private Jewish intellectual discussion society based at Yale that is not affiliated with the university. More than 300 protesters had assembled outside the Shabtai house over several hours, waving Israeli and Palestinian flags, according to the student newspaper, the Yale Daily News.

Earlier, a large group of students briefly erected a small tent encampment on the Yale campus plaza in protest of Mr. Ben-Gvir’s appearance.

Mr. Ben-Gvir has long stood on the fringes of Israeli politics and has been widely criticized for his extreme views. He was barred as a teenager from serving in the Israeli army because he was seen as too extremist. For some time, he had a portrait in his home of a man who shot dead 29 Palestinians in a West Bank mosque in 1994.

The confrontation Wednesday came as Columbia, Harvard and other elite universities have been targeted by the Trump administration, which has cut billions of dollars in federal funding to the schools, including over assertions that some have become bastions of antisemitism. (Yale is not included on a list of 10 schools that a federal antisemitism task force has identified for particular attention.)

On Wednesday, Harmeet Dhillon, a top attorney in the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice, responded on X to a video posted by a Jewish student who said that he had been blocked from walking through campus by an earlier protest that was separate from the demonstrations at the Shabtai house.

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