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Chi-Ming Yang
Chi-Ming Yang spoke at a pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in April 2024 during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. Israel launched the war after the October 7, 2023, terror attacks.
Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands and kidnapped hundreds more that day. For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
The encampment was part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of May 2025, Chi-Ming Yang was listed as a professor of English in the Department of English at Penn.
Penn is located in Philadelphia.
On April 25, 2024, Chi-Ming Yang was featured in a photo at the Penn encampment, wearing a keffiyeh and speaking into a microphone.
WHYY PBS reported that Yang "called for the reinstatement of Penn Students Against The Occupation, a student-led group that was effectively banned from the campus."
On May 10, 2024, Chi-Ming Yang featured in a photo at the Penn encampment, being led away by the police.
The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that Yang said she was "initially told they were under arrest, but were not placed in zip tie handcuffs and were led away without being formally detained."
On April 25, 2024, anti-Israel activists from Penn, Temple University and Drexel University set up the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on the Penn campus to protest Israel's war against Hamas.
The encampment was one of about 140 anti-Israel college encampments set up in North America, and over 20 globally, in the spring of 2024. The first began on April 17, 2024 at Columbia University. Protesters harassed Jewish students, blocked Jews from campus facilities and used anti-Semitic language in their activism. They also promoted BDS and protested Israel’s war against Hamas, launched after Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents and pro-terror activism on campus.
