The University of Virginia (UVA) student body is voting on an antisemitic BDS referendum, with concerns raised about exacerbating antisemitism on campus. Various individuals and groups have urged students to vote against the referendum, citing potential negative impacts on Jewish students and the campus environment. Despite these calls, a student referendum at UVA has passed, calling for divesting funds from companies associated with Israel's actions against Palestinians.
Despite warnings of the harm a school-wide BDS referendum would cause on campus and violations of referendum guidelines, @UVA allowed the vote to proceed. Call on UVA's @presjimryan to publicly reject BDS and affirm its support for Jewish students: https://t.co/zCr3Zgwwqh
Student referendum passes calling for @UVA to divest funds "invested in companies engaging in or profiting from the State of Israel’s apartheid regime and acute violence against Palestinians." Yes: 5,425 / 67.87% No: 2,568 / 32.13% https://t.co/kLAKPBWUYP https://t.co/eokUIlx6n2
As a University of California graduate, I’m sickened by this. This has been ongoing for over a decade. My dad escaped Soviet antisemitism too, so I feel for Tessa. BDS is supported by bullies. Fellow UC graduates: if you haven’t already, stop giving the 10 campuses $$$. https://t.co/jbkWYjAwtg
Right now, the University of Virginia @UVA is holding a campus-wide #BDS referendum, forcing all of its students to decide where they stand on Israel. @BDSmovement is the movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel, a movement which doesn’t hide its desire to dismantle… https://t.co/7FKsn5cfLj
BDS votes on college campuses have no effect on Israel. All they do is threaten and alienate Jewish students. Right now, @UVA is holding a campus-wide BDS referendum vote, forcing all students to pick a side on Israel. BDS has no place on college campuses or anywhere.…
I urge all students at the University of Virginia to stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters and REJECT the anti-Semitic BDS referendum. The BDS movement does nothing to advance peace but merely is a thinly veiled effort to support Hamas and radical Palestinian terrorism.
At @UVA, students have been spat upon, shoved, called horrible names, antisemitic slurs. There’s one kid who has been so intimidated by students in his dorm he had to move off campus and stop wearing his yarmulke. Adopting BDS will only make things worse. UVA: Vote NO today. https://t.co/KvPue938Xc
This week, @UVA is holding a student-wide referendum on whether to adopt BDS. This referendum is not productive and will only lead to more hate and hostility on campus while negatively impacting both Israelis and Palestinians. #BDSisBS https://t.co/7MECA420om
This week, the @UVA student body is voting on an antisemitic BDS referendum. UVA students must vote NO on this inflammatory and divisive referendum that will accomplish nothing except exacerbate antisemitism on campus at a time when Jewish students are already feeling afraid. https://t.co/lplQche0ax