In response to antisemitic and violent acts at Yale University, Chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party Ben Proto issued the following statement:

"We will not be silent about what is taking place at Yale. To see college students at one of Connecticut and the word's top universities openly sympathizing with a terrorist group and committing acts of violence against Jewish students is disgraceful. Anyone who commits these violent acts must be criminally prosecuted. Free speech does not mean freedom to engage in violence against a particular group. These acts are hate crimes and should be treated as such by our justice system. In the wake of the horrific terror attacks on October 7th, the current hostages in Palestine, and acts of antisemitism across the country, all Americans must be united against terrorists."

“Connecticut Republicans stand with Israel and her allies in condemning these acts and demand action from the Yale administration and from Connecticut's criminal justice system."