Campus group calls Israel an "apartheid" state in letter to community
Matthew Foldi and Alex Nester • May 11, 2021
The University of Michigan’s student government condemned the school for its "complicity in Israel’s violence" and capitalized on violent attacks on the Jewish state to advocate the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
In a letter to the school community, Michigan’s Central Student Government called Israel an "apartheid" state and demanded the university divest from Israel-based businesses that profit "off of the settler state’s occupation." Until it does, the university will remain implicated in Israeli military actions, like the state's response to ongoing Hamas rocket strikes, the letter claims.
"The actions of the Israeli occupying forces throughout Palestine are inhumane, international war crimes," the letter reads. "For the past 73 years, this violence has displaced, harmed, and killed indigenous Palestinians. This is not a ‘conflict,’ but emblematic of Israeli settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid."
Hundreds of Palestinians in Jerusalem rioted this week to protest
Israel's evictions of Palestinians occupying homes in East Jerusalem.
Hamas terrorists based in the Gaza Strip have launched more
than 470 rockets into Israel in recent days, killing two Israelis on
Tuesday and injuring roughly a dozen others. Israeli counter strikes
have killed at least 28 people in Gaza..........To Read More.....
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