Students at Harvard Law School Pass Referendum Urging University to Divest From Israel
“The Law School moved swiftly to distance itself from the referendum outcome.”
When it comes to this issue, there are so many incredibly stupid people who think they’re the good guys.
The Harvard Crimson reports:
Harvard Law School Students Pass Referendum Urging University To Divest From Israel
The Harvard Law School student body voted on Thursday to call on the University to divest from Israel — delivering a decisive endorsement of language that Law School administrators harshly criticized before it went up for a vote.
The resolution, which called on Harvard to “divest from weapons, surveillance technology, and other companies aiding violations of international humanitarian law, including Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine,” passed with 72.7 percent of votes in favor, with 842 students participating. Nearly 2,000 students attend HLS.
The results — announced late Thursday night — mark the second vote by a Harvard student body in favor of divestment. Students at the Harvard School of Public Health voted in June to urge Harvard to divest from Israel, and governments at the Law School, Harvard Divinity School, and the Graduate School of Design have all urged divestment. But its passage is unlikely to result in change from Harvard, whose leaders have rebuffed calls for divestment at every turn.
The Law School moved swiftly to distance itself from the referendum outcome.
HLS spokesperson Jeff Neal wrote in a statement that “although it has historically administered leadership elections for student government, and offered to do so again this year, the law school administration played no role in the referendum conducted by student government.”
“As explained in a message to students, the administration expressed deep disappointment with student government’s leadership’s decision to proceed with a needlessly divisive referendum which runs contrary to student government’s stated objectives of ‘fostering community’ and ‘enhancing inclusion,’” he added.
The referendum was first proposed in a petition by Law Students for a Free Palestine, an unrecognized student group, which passed the 300-signature threshold to trigger a Student Government referendum Feb. 18.
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Cultural Marxism has infected most universities. See a diploma hanging on a wall at a professional office with Haaaarvard diploma walk straight back out.
That’s about 612 votes out of 2,000 students. Real impressive.
Hmm, not that’s interesting. These would be lawyers aren’t very “democratic”. Seems like only about 42% of the student body participated…not even enough for a quorum at a Corporate annual meeting or, mot Homeowner’s Associations, for that matter.
Seems like another instance of a vocal and tyrannical minority getting all the attention.
This must end!
Track where these lawyers end up and boycott the hiring firms and companies. Also do n9t hire them into government service. Any judges for whom they clerk should have all their clerks similarly boycotted. Make them into the poison pills they are
Assemble a list of the signers to that “referendum” and make it available for any law firm to reference when considering summer interns..
Every firm should know as much about their “investments” as is possible and anti-semites are not likely good for business.
So sad, yet unsurprised, when The Crim shut down its comments forum
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