‘Position of Neutrality:’ U. Minnesota Rejects BDS Proposal
Anti-Israel students respond: “[We’ll] continue to do a lot of the same disruptive actions that we had over the past year.”
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents rejected anti-Israel activists’ demands to divest from companies with Israeli ties.
The students responded with threats. From Campus Reform:
The decision was announced on Tuesday following a Board of Regents meeting. In a press release, the university announced that a “position of neutrality” will be applied to investments in its Consolidated Endowment Fund.
”After careful consideration of all this input, we believe today’s action honors our fiduciary duty and the long-term needs of the University,” said UMN’s Board of Regents Chair Janie Mayeron.
Mayeron additionally released a statement explaining the months-long ordeal involving, among other things, expert testimony.
“For the past several months, we have sought out expert analysis and a variety of perspectives on how the University invests its Consolidated Endowment Fund,” Mayeron explained. “We have reviewed how this fund operates, how it supports affordable education for students, groundbreaking research, and community engagement, and the possible financial challenges of divestment.”
“We’ve also welcomed input from members of our community, and we respect their deeply held perspectives. In the end, it is clear our community is divided on the topic,” Mayeron added.
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Anti-Israel students at the university held a news conference after the Board of Regents announced its decision not to divest from companies connected to Israel, saying that they would continue to protest in support of their cause, according to CBS News.
“[We’ll] continue to do a lot of the same disruptive actions that we had over the past year,” said UMN student Faye Hodges. “And I think that, again, we don’t want to make the regents’ lives comfortable and our university functioning as usual while our tuition dollars are being spent on something that over 70% of the student body voted against.”
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the deceptively named
redneck revolution is on it!
we pray for both the country of israel and the jewish citizens of america
to become stronger and more united against the leftist policies of the dnc/uni-party
They’re not your tuition dollars. Once you spent them they’re the university’s dollars, and it’s none of your business what it does with them.
Imagine making such a statement in a supermarket: “We won’t let the supermarket function as usual while our grocery dollars are being spent on something 70% of the customers voted against”.
If you don’t like how a business owner spends the profit he makes from your purchases, you’re free to take your custom elsewhere.
Oh, Milhouse! I really thought you were more intelligent than this! U Minn is not a supermarket, it is a government entity, so it is everyone’s business what it does with the money it has. While I disagree with the students who object to this policy and with their intent to disrupt the university, they have every right to their opinions and to voice them peaceably.
It’s not the students’ business. If anything it’s the state legislature’s business.
You do not have a right to disobey the rules of an institution you are in.
Being a protestor does not mean no law applies to you besides don’t be violent, if the property holder doesn’t want you to behave that way on their property you are not entitled to do so.