Students for Justice in Palestine Group at UMass Angry That School Won’t Divest From Israel
“Our institutions will never free us. We will free us. Disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest.”
SJP chapters across the country have been pushing for this for years. They think this is their moment.
Campus Reform reports:
Anti-Israel UMass group slams trustees for not voting on Israel divestment
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Students for Justice in Palestine blasted the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees for choosing not to vote on a divestment measure that the school allegedly promised would be voted on.
The UMass SJP posted a series of statements to Instagram following a June 7 board meeting of the school. A divestment vote was not listed among the other measures that the board considered.
The SJP at UMass responded by writing: “Our institutions will never free us. We will free us. Disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest.”
The student group claimed that during a May 7 meeting to discuss the end of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on campus, Chancellor Javier Reyes promised to hold a divestment vote at the Board of Trustees’ June 7 meeting.
The SJP alleged that Reyes “emphasized that he had gone out of his way to ensure its presence on the agenda for the June 7th Board meeting.”
The SJP also expressed outrage at UMass President Marty Meehan for wearing “a pro-Israel pin” at the meeting, calling this decision “disgusting” and labeling Meehan a “Genocide Enthusiast.”
The SJP added that the decision to not include a divestment vote at the meeting “is antagonistic to the concept of shared governance, which is the foundation that the relationship between [Student Government Association] and the Board of Trustees is built on.”
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College administrators need to reassert control of their institutions. Students are there to shut up and learn. They aren’t there to tell the university how it should conduct its business. If they don’t like how the university functions, they should go elsewhere.
Students can speak their piece outside of classes. But if they interrupt classes, threaten other students (eg Jews), take over offices or buildings, or damage school equipment, they should be suspended or expelled.
“Our institutions will never free us. We will free us. Disclose, divest, we will not stop we will not rest.”
“I’m not a poet, and I’ll never know it.”
They may as well just respond with “Allahu Akbar.” They have now successfully replaced all thinking with robotic chanting.
“I’m not a poet, and I’ll never know it.” LOL
Is it possible to do the “good for the goose/gander” thing?
Has anybody brought this up?
Has anybody asked whether some of the ICJ judges’ wives sisters children kidnapped? until Israeli children etc released?
When Venezuelan gang bangers kill rape Americans, why should those responsible rest easy ?
Maybe BDS Qatar Norway Spain Ireland UNSC? Idk, does anyone ever talk about such things?
Why are gazans lebanese iraqis yemenis iranians permitted into the U.S.?
Obviously bombs and bullets haven’t done much good?
The board needs to tell them explicitly that there is no shared governance, and there will never be. That the concept is utterly repudiated, and the relationship is that between any business and a small group of disruptive customers.
Right on. Shared governance is supposed to be between the faculty and the administration. The students are not involved in governance. They are there to learn. But in recent years, administrators have proliferated, and shared governance has taken a beating. See
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/10/22/shared-governance-fatally-flawed-opinion