This is an update to a story we have been following. Professor Jacobson is quoted in the piece.
From Campus Reform:
Cornell grad student union backs ‘armed resistance by any means necessary’Cornell University’s graduate student union is in the midst of discussing an anti-Israel resolution that supports the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.The Ithaca, New York-based union discussed the resolution at a town hall on Nov. 20, according to The Times of Israel.Cornell Graduate Students United — UE Local 300 voted on a resolution titled “International Solidarity with the Palestinian Liberation Struggle,” a statement that adopts an explicitly anti-Israel posture and integrates the Palestinian cause into its labor platform.The resolution claims that “solidarity with Palestine” is “the most effective means of defending Cornell graduate workers,” and commits the union to enforcing full BDS guidelines aimed at “dismantling” what it calls the occupation of Palestinian land” and “facilitating the return of Palestinian refugees.”…The BDS movement, which the grad students express support for, advocates “withdrawing support from Israel’s apartheid regime” and withdrawing “investments from the State of Israel and all Israeli and international companies that sustain Israeli apartheid.”William Jacobson, a professor of law at Cornell, tells Campus Reform that the union’s “anti-Israel aggressiveness” is “not surprising.”“Unfortunately, the prior administration did nothing to fight this noxious affiliation and instead celebrated it,” Jacobson added. “Now we are paying the price as a campus because the hateful and bigoted BDS movement has captured a key institutional player on Cornell’s campus.”
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