Yale student council condemns Israel genocide in Palestine
In the latest anti-Israeli measure across US universities, Yale’s student council approved a statement authored by a campus pro-Palestinian group accusing Israel of genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
The Yale College Council, the undergraduate student government, approved the statement on Sunday which was first authored by Yalies 4 Palestine, in an 8-3 vote with four abstentions, the Forward reported.
Yalies 4 Palestine released the statement on May 12 amid the Israel-Gaza conflict.
“As Yale students, we condemn the injustice, ethnic cleansing and genocide occurring in Palestine,” it read.
The statement also likened Israel’s actions during the conflict to police violence against Black Americans.
“Just as Israel’s military imposes the apartheid system against Palestinians, the US police enforces the system of white supremacy against Black Americans,” it said. A number of left-leaning campus groups subsequently endorsed the statement. A group of anti-Zionist Jewish students and alumni also released their own statement endorsing the Yalies 4 Palestine statement.
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