Recipients of MLK Award at U. Michigan Return it and ‘Demand School Divest From Israel’
“65 award recipients, dating back to 2006, have returned it to the university”
The BDS movement seems to be going mainstream in American higher education. It’s disgusting ignorance on full display.
Campus Reform reports:
University of Michigan MLK award recipients return honor, demand school divest from Israel
People who received the University of Michigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit Award have given it back and urged the school to divest from Israel and weapons manufacturers.
In an op-ed for the Michigan Daily, 65 award recipients, dating back to 2006, have returned it to the university.
The individuals who returned the award back to the university cited a recent action by Provost Laurie McCauley, who revoked the Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit Award from recent alum Salma Hamamy in May after an Instagram story post, where she wrote “utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist state. Death and more,” according to the Detroit News.
Hamamy claimed that the social media post was taken out of context.
A spokesperson for the institution told the outlet that “The University of Michigan decided to revoke the Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award given to Salma Hamamy based on two statements she made endorsing violence and murder.”
The 56 award recipients wrote in the op-ed that “We do not see Hamamy’s condemnation of Zionism as supporting violence.”
”Instead, it is a call for an end to a political ideology that denies Palestinians their rights to land, self-determination and their very livelihood. Surely we can understand how in this moment, when grave atrocities are being committed against Palestinians month after month, that a member of that community would feel immense anguish, anger and grief — a mix of emotions that those of us who are not Palestinian cannot fully understand. Can Palestinians not rebuke those that kill their families?,” the individuals wrote.
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“…denies Palestinians their rights to land, self-determination and their very livelihood.”
I’m confused. Didn’t Israel leave Gaza and the West Bank years ago? Isn’t that land?
Didn’t the Gazans and West Bankers have an election? Didn’t the PA and Hamas win those elections? Isn’t that “self determination”?
Didn’t Israel, before being invaded and attacked by Gaza, have a robust program of providing work permits for Gazans, allowing them employment in Israel? Isn’t that a livelihood?
Whatever drugs these people are using…I want some; apparently it’s good stuff.
“utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist state. Death and more.”
“We do not see Hamamy’s condemnation of Zionism as supporting violence.”
How ignorant can these people be? Calling for “Utter death and more” is about as violent as you can get.
If that’s an example of their analytic skills, maybe they should return their diplomas instead.
This is a truly shocking report. A clear call to genocide on Israelis. The University of Michigan needs to retire the MLK Spirit Award. Obviously, there is no one there worthy of an award named after a pacifist. (But, hey, NYC Jews, this has nothing to do with you! Chill out!)
MLK was both Zionist and non-violent. He would have approved of these jerks not having an award named for him.
Time to leave.
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Building lots of new housing here in Beit Shemesh. Not sure if our infrastructure is keeping pace, though.