Georgetown University Rejects Student Body’s Decision to Divest From Israel
“Georgetown will not implement this referendum, based on our institutional values and history and existing university resources and processes that address our investments”
The BDS crowd thinks their moment is here, but they keep getting rejected.
The College Fix reports:
Georgetown students pass Israel divestment, but university rejects measure
Georgetown University’s student body voted to divest from Israeli-linked companies this week, but the school refused to comply.
With nearly 30 percent voter turnout, almost 68 percent voted in favor of the referendum, while 32 percent voted against it, the Georgetown University Student Association election commission announced in a post on X Tuesday.
However, less than an hour after the results were made public, Interim President Robert Groves announced the university would not comply with the demands of the proposal, The Georgetown Voice reported.
“Georgetown will not implement this referendum, based on our institutional values and history and existing university resources and processes that address our investments,” Groves wrote in an email to the student body.
Groves wrote that Georgetown maintains a “longstanding position” against academic boycotts.
He referenced a statement by former President John DeGioia, which reads, “A boycott of Israeli universities undermines the academic freedom vital to the Academy’s mission.”
Groves also cited the school’s Socially Responsible Investing Policy, which affirms Georgetown’s commitment to ethically managing the university’s endowment while striving to maximize returns to ensure “intergenerational equity.”
Still, a Muslim advocacy group called the Council on American-Islamic Relations commended Georgetown students for passing the resolution in a statement Wednesday.
“Despite extreme efforts to smear and silence college students critical of the Israeli government’s war crimes, students at Georgetown and other students across America are showing that those efforts have failed,” the group wrote.
“The Israeli government and its supporters have lost the rising generation, which has been able to witness both the crimes committed against Palestinians with American taxpayer dollars and the un-American attempts to suppress college students,” CAIR wrote.
The group concluded by calling on the university to “heed their call for divestment from any companies connected to the war criminals of the Israeli military.”
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So all these students have accomplished is making their fellow students feel ostracized , wasting everyone’s time and not learning anything. Well done freeing Palestine dudes ; now maybe you can find the lost city of Atlantis.
Unfortunately they’ve succeeded wildly in moving the Overton Window among their cohort so that not only antisemitism but anti-Jewish genocide & destroying the world’s only Jewish state are now considered morally acceptable- if not indeed morally imperative-among wide swaths of younger Americans.
I’m waiting for a university to remind these students that while they may be allowed to attend the school for a few years, they are not empowered to make these decisions on behalf of the university. As a result, their mob rule referendum is meaningless.