Law School Harvard Students voted to demand a university gift of $ 53 billion taken away from “weapons, surveillance technology” and other companies related to Israel, symbolic voting that brings a renewed attention to the protest movement that attracted the IRE Trump administration.
Harvard’s administration said it would not be deprived of students last year, and the students’ voting does not implement any implementation, but the move puts anti-Israelic protests in the center of attention at a time when President Alan Garber is trying to convince Republicans to take the school’s criticism seriously, which includes his handling of anti-Semitism.
This move comes for days after administration pulled $ 400 million from Columbia University Immigration officials also arrested the organizer of anti-Israeli protests. Harvard said that last week they would temporarily freeze teachers and employees who are employed by concern about federal funding.
“Threats of Trump’s administration are intended to scare us in submission, but this referendum shows that these efforts only strengthen our solidarity with Palestine,” said Irene Ameen, organizer with students of the right to free Palestine. The note states that 73% of 842 students who voted chose a desistment. The Faculty of Law has almost 2,000 students.
Pro-Palestinian students have long called to universities to break ties with Israel, and administrators have almost completely neglected, even after the protests on the campus intensified due to Hamas 2023 attack on the Jewish State and retaliation of Israel.
Schools and legislators rejected a boycott, deviation, sanctions or BDS, movement against Israel, looking at it as an anti -Semite, because it calls into question the legitimacy of the Jewish state and allocates the policy of a country.
Harvard Law School said in a statement that he strongly supports students’ rights in freedom of speech. He added that the administration did not play a role in a referendum run by the Student Government.
“As explained in the message to students, the administration expressed a deep disappointment by the decision of the Student Government’s leadership to continue with an unnecessarily divided referendum, which is contrary to the stated goals of the Student Government” Community Encouraging “and” Improvement of Inclusion, “said Harvard Law.
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