The resolution was sponsored by an Islamic terror-tied group. US college campuses have become cesspools for left-wing Jew hatred and totalitarianism.
After six-hour debate, University of Illinois student government passes BDS resolution
Illini Students Supporting Israel board member Aaron Merlin, a junior, told JNS that the vote was wrong and not representative of the overall university community.Students, faculty and clergy gather at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a vote to pass a BDS resolution on campus, a debate that went into the early-morning hours on Feb. 13, 2020.
(February 13, 2020 / JNS) After more than six hours of deliberation, the student government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) passed a BDS resolution in the early hours on Thursday morning that calls on the university to divest from “companies that profit from human-rights violations in Palestine and other communities globally,” as well as from firms that provide weaponry and technology to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a copy of the resolution obtained by JNS ahead of the vote, which includes endorsements from the student government’s leadership committee.
Story continues below advertisementThe final vote was 20 in favor, nine against and seven abstentions.
The BDS resolution named companies such as Elbit Systems Ltd., Northrop Grumman and Raytheon as “involved in human-rights violations and violations of international law, including the confiscation and destruction of Palestinian lands, criminalization of immigrants and communities of color, and other human rights violations,” and therefore “make UIUC complicit in these crimes.”
The resolution was co-authored by Dunia Ghanimah, president of the university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and has 22 sponsors, including Academic Affairs chair Sihah Reza.
It was endorsed by half of the student senate’s leadership committee, including its director, Marissa Finley; Kirsten Peterson, chair of Community & Governmental Affairs; internal affairs chair Katrina Rbeiz; campus affairs chair Alexis Perezchica; financial affairs chair Jessica Tiggelaar; Bugra Sahin, chair of Sustainability, Resilience and Environmental Justice; and Shelby Sears, an event management student ambassador at the university’s division of intercollegiate athletics, according to her LinkedIn profile.
An amendment to take out all references to Israel failed by a vote of 11 in favor, 22 against and six abstentions.
‘Bigotry at all levels of the education system should not be tolerated’
Jewish and pro-Israel groups expressed severe disapproval over the resolution’s passage.
Illini Students Supporting Israel board member Aaron Merlin, a junior, told JNS that the vote was wrong and not representative of the overall university community.
“The Jewish community, the pro-Israel community is extremely disappointed in what just happened in our student government,” he said. “The student government does not represent the students. This is not the first time a BDS resolution has been proposed. The previous two times it has failed overwhelmingly because it was voted by the students.”
Those two times were in 2017 and 2018.
“Although the resolution passed, it is key to remember our campus has rejected BDS measures twice before this,” Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, co-director of Chabad at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, told JNS.“BDS was only able to pass this time because the system was manipulated in the senate after ISG was stacked with anti-Israel students. We know this vote does not represent the values and beliefs of students and faculty at the University of Illinois.”
Alums for Campus Fairness executive director Avi Gordon told JNS that “the passage of this discriminatory resolution is indicative of a disturbing trend of anti-Semitism at UIUC. Universities should be pillars of truth, academic freedom and open discourse, and when these values are compromised for any group, including Jewish and Zionist students, university administrators must respond appropriately.”
StandWithUs executive director of campus affairs Rena First told JNS, “Illinois student government has added to its already shameful record with this discriminatory resolution. Their unrepresentative decision does not negate the fact that the entire student body voted against almost identical proposals in two recent referendums.”
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, co-founder and director of AMCHA Initiative, told JNS “these votes are all part of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) strategy to demonize and delegitimize Israel and its supporters on campus. Our latest report demonstrated that in 2018 the direct targeting of Israel’s supporters for harm, especially Jewish students, reached alarming levels. In fact, attempts to exclude Jewish and pro-Israel students from campus activities more than doubled, while calling for the total boycott or exclusion of pro-Israel students from campus life nearly tripled.”
“This Jew-hatred is nothing new. The passage of this pro-BDS resolution is the latest example of anti-Semitism surging at American universities,” Club Z executive director Masha Merkulova told JNS. “Bigotry at all levels of the education system—from elementary schools to universities—should not be tolerated under any circumstance. The Jewish community must take a strong, decisive stand and demand that Jewish students receive the same protections afforded to all other groups.”
Chancellor Robert Jones in October denounced anti-Semitism in response to a presentation during a mandatory meeting for the residential living team at the university that was replete with anti-Semitic references has come under fire from the pro-Israel community.
“I want to state publicly and unequivocally that acts and expressions of anti-Semitism are acts and expressions of hatred and discrimination that are in direct opposition to our core values,” he said. “Bias and prejudice are antithetical to the educational foundations of our university and hurtful to our entire community.”
Also in October, the UIUC student government passed a resolution introduced by SJP to condemn the chancellor’s remarks.
The university’s administration already said it would not enforce the resolution.
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Muslims are using our freedom against us.
Muslim money in our education fuels this –
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$100 says that 100% of the jew haters on that student council are democrats and 90% of them are mean ugly women.
with rags on their heads
You left out “fat”.
DISGUSTING.
It’s no surprise that universities foster anti-semitism and Jew hatred. People should read Stephen Harwood’s ‘ The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower’ and his’ Anti-semitism and the American Far Left’. The first one goes back to the 1930’s and details the chicanery of Harvard and other universities in supporting Hitler; the second book brings this love of fascism up to present times.
Very interesting books. But the author’s name is actually Stephen H. Norwood.
When contempory western society {young and not so young} finally has enough at playing “catch up” with the latest progressive diatribes on “hate” or “trans right” or BDS or identity politics, they’ll tire of being whipped and kicked from behind in a lemming like rush to avoid stigmatisation, they’ll dig in their heels, rub their bruises and stop being the victims for once.
When you think national but act local, you brace up, cast off the lepers cloak you’re forced to wear because of your contrary beliefs and start thumping them back hard. Refuse to use the non term “Ms”,because Mr, Mrs and Miss were good enough for real heros before us so use em again. Name boys with external bits as boys and girls with wombs as females {or shock horror – BABES}.
Call out Royal Princlings who take private jet flights to stand shoeless making speeches in warm rich places about sacrifices to “save the planet man” they’re the last to make, as the fakes and hypocrites that they are. And that includes the whole of Hollywierd.
When in an institute of higher learning the atmosphere is Marxist / toxic to freedom to think, speak out, deny GWCC etc and conservative speakers or staff blocked or dismissed, start putting labels on the coat hooks such as PARTY MEMBERS ONLY, or on some door perhaps labels saying JACKBOOT STORE with TORCHES, DRUMS AND BANNERS FIRST HARD LEFT.
Honestly, the fun you can have dancing on the lefts sacred cakes is endless, and all with such confidence too because of this one thought, who with the knowledge we have of what the left have done to the people of Venezuela, would vote for that “life” today in America or anywhere ?
Once again Muslims are trying to build a mosque next to ground zero at the site of the 9/11 memorial. Under communist, Muslim loving Mayor DeBlaizo they might be successful…. They know he is weak and has a similar mindset to him.
We need to reverse this –
A resolution without teeth. Once again the basis for the resolution consists of general unsupported allegations, superimposed on the continuing claim that Israel is an “occupier,” the never ending saga that makes all attempts at settlement of the issues in the Middle East all but unreachable. Besides with much of the Arab world turning towards Israel as a more favored state, the BDS movement will die a slow and ultimately dramatic “death.” I understand the inbred Arab mentality of those students who are Arabic, but I simply do not understand what kind of other student would continue to support the nonsense that constitutes BDS. What are they teaching these youngsters?
The upside of this is it makes it much easier to identify the jew haters. At least we know who they are. They voted.
Hitlers first and most ardent supporters were the college campuses. Not much has changed.
n the late Middle Ages, the Jews, numbering only about 1% of Europe’s population, constituted roughly half of its physicians. During the last of the great European Jewish expulsions in the 1930s, the medical centers of Vienna and Berlin lost nearly half of their physicians and the majority of their medical school faculties. Many fled to America, helping to fuel its meteoric rise to preeminence in biomedical
He promised FREE college education, didn’t he? Add that one to his gun confiscations … Talk about a GREAT Democrat Party candidate.
America must have been nice back when it was a WASP-dominated country, not a multicultural war-zone for Semites and other alien agitators.
FOAD, Nazi filth.
Hi, jonni. What would a negro moslem, such as you, know about that?
Ah, I see we have yet another Kool Aid drinker on this site. That’s ok. The mental disorder that is liberalism affects all types. Have you begun psychological treatment yet?
Great now cut off ALL federal money and send the DOJ in for violation of the Constitution!!!! Can’t fix STUPID with ignorant libturds but they do love their liars and criminals!!!
I hope these hypocrites aren’t enjoying anything Jews have discovered like:
The development of oral contraceptives byGregory Pincus, Carl Djerassi, and Frank Colton.
The development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin,
The development of the hepatitis-B vaccine
The isolation and development of penicillin by Sir Ernst Chain.
The invention of local anesthesia
So we are not supposed to control who is here with INS and ICE? that undermines America from inside.