Cornell Student Assembly Votes Down Resolution ‘Acknowledging Palestinian Suffering under Israeli Apartheid’
“blamed Israel for creating the conditions for these attacks to occur”
It’s great that this resolution was voted down but horrifying that it existed in the first place.
The Cornell Review reports:
Student Assembly Rejects Resolution XX, Acknowledging Palestinian Suffering under “Israeli Apartheid”
On Thursday, the Student Assembly narrowly voted down a proposal to consider Resolution XX.
The motion was brought forward in response to President Pollack’s recent messages regarding the violence and terrorist attacks in Israel…
On Tuesday, Cornell’s President Pollack sent out a message to express her “horror, sadness and concern.” She called the loss of human life tragic, equating the terrorist attack to that of “earthquakes, fires or floods.” Pollack also stated that there is no way to “acknowledge the pain that different members of our community feel when such events occur”.
Notably, Pollack omitted any mention that these actions from Hamas were acts of terrorism, prompting outrage from across campus. The president followed up her original message by acknowledging that she, “failed to say that the atrocities committed by Hamas this past weekend were acts of terrorism.”
In response to the President’s message, SA’s LGBTQIA + Liaison at Large, Karys Everett, and president of Students for Justice for Palestine (SJP), Malak Abuhashim, respectfully, co-sponsored a resolution urging Pollack to send out a new message to provide “additional context” to what is happening in the Middle East.
The resolution, titled Resolution XX, was not actually published on the Cornell SA website per standard protocol, however the Cornell Review was able to obtain a copy. The resolution, titled “Acknowledging Palestinian Suffering under Israeli Apartheid,” demanded Cornell “reevaluate its response to the Palestinian resistance efforts and provide more historically accurate and balanced perspectives.”
The resolution, which began by calling Hamas an “armed resistance front,” blamed Israel for creating the conditions for these attacks to occur. It also condemned Israel’s “75 years of illegal occupation” and stated that Hamas’s armed operations were a “direct response” to Israel’s “settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid governance.”
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