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Students vote: Should Rutgers break ties with Israel?
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Rutgers president calls the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement 'wrong'
With over 30,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military since the Oct. 7 attacks, students at Rutgers University in New Brunswick and Newark are taking to the ballot box whether Rutgers should disinvest from Israeli companies and strip the school of its relationship with Tel Aviv University.
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Students vote: Should Rutgers break ties with Israel?
Clip: 4/5/2024 | 4m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
With over 30,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military since the Oct. 7 attacks, students at Rutgers University in New Brunswick and Newark are taking to the ballot box whether Rutgers should disinvest from Israeli companies and strip the school of its relationship with Tel Aviv University.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipan Israeli investigation confirms the air strike that killed seven Aid workers with World Central Kitchen violated the military's own protocols admitting it shouldn't have happened two IDF officers have been fired from their posts and three senior commanders were reprimanded for their roles in the Drone strike that killed the workers the White House today said it has no plans to conduct a separate investigation the event has sparked Fury from many of Israel's allies and frustration here at home too students at the ruter New Brunswick and Newark campuses are voting to join other schools divesting from Israel a significant move that has so far been resisted by the administration Ted Goldberg has the story Rucker president Jonathan Holloway heard an earful at a town hall with the school student assembly and it made clear my view on and I made my and I made my clear on Tel Aviv University and the fact that we're not separating relationships 30,000 people dead and he runs away like a coward earlier this week Holloway sent an email explaining why Ruckers is not planning on divesting from companies which have baptized to Israel he said the boycott divestment sanctions movement is quote wrong and I believe in engagement not isolation I believe that Enlightenment comes from involvement and that lasting progress in peace are the outcomes of diplomacy and discussion the community is obset the community is grieving in many ways and often times when you'll see these outbursts um it's their pain that's coming out there that they don't have a feel like they have a voice in in the spaces that they inhabit Kaiser oslam is the Muslim chaplain for Ruckers New Brunswick he says students were told that last night's Town Hall would be open mic and there would be a question and answer format which ended after one question we really wanted this to be a conversation for the president to speak to us and hear from us as well unfortunately the night turned into just hearing from us and us not being able to engage in dialogue starting off from the standpoint of demand is not going to win the day starting from the place of we want to understand better we want to collaborate better we want to be partners we'll get you heck a lot further this week Rucker's Newark students are voting on joining other schools in divesting and disassociating with Israeli universities in the call for divestment students write quote we value ethical responsibility over complicity and oppression in pursuit of divestment from Israel and its genocide and Gaza we call on our University to reimagine an endowment fund free of investments in global Injustice one that can bring Improvement to our community and Beyond psychology Professor Kent Harbor says divestment would be a huge mistake this referendum is putting a whole domain of learning and a whole institution in an Institutional ghetto I I don't believe in ghettos my family came from them they don't help Harbor teaches at Ruckers nework and co-signed a letter defending his school stance isolation of an entire country an entire University based on ideological and National probably ethnic grounds and for us that is anema to what higher education is all about Harbor says the actions of Israel's government should be considered separate from Tel Aviv University Israel's largest university and a school moving into the Hub a $665 million project in New Brunswick the neuros pychology of different kinds of psychological dysfunctions anxiety uh autism these are things that you know as a psychologist I need to engage in why would we not want to have connections with another institution which we can do what we're supposed to do discover learn disseminate information osam says Ruckers should sever ties because Tel Aviv university has supported settler policies that are displacing hundreds of thousands of people so that's really where it's coming from it's a moral imposition why would we want to have a relationship with a institution like that for Ruckers to consider divesting 10% of the student body has to vote and a majority of them have to vote in favor results will come out sometime between now and next Thursday in Newark I'm Ted Goldberg NJ Spotlight news
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