The Jewish centre at one of America’s leading universities refused to allow an exhibition created by the Israeli anti-occupation group Breaking the Silence this week.

Princeton University’s branch of the left-wing organisation J–Street had wanted to show it at the Centre for Jewish Life on campus, according to JTA.

But the centre said it did not want the exhibition to coincide with Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s remembrance day for fallen soldiers and Independence Day.

Rabbi Julie Roth, the centre’s director, told the university’s student newspaper that “given the sensitivities related to the timing of the event overlapping with Yom Hazikaron… and Yom Haatzmaut, we did not want to host the programme in the building.”

The exhibition is due to go on display on another site on campus.

Meanwhile, Jewish students at Wisconsin University are fuming at a resolution passed by its student government blaming Israel for police violence against African-Americans and calling for divestment from companies said to support Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.

Ariela Rivkin, the sole Jewish member of the student government, told the Forward newspaper, “they have trampled on and harassed us for more than a month”.

A spokesman for the university said it opposed boycotts and the student resolution would have no effect on policy.