Demand the University of Minnesota Shut Down the Antisemitic BDS Referendum

On October 7, 2023, over 1,200 men, women, and children were brutally massacred by Hamas terrorists who violated Israel's border. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. More than 250 innocents were taken hostage, and more than 130 remain in captivity nearly five months later. As Israel continues to fight an existential war against the genocidal terrorist group in Gaza to bring back its hostages, universities across the country have seen an unprecedented rise in antisemitism, and the University of Minnesota has not been spared.

Right now, the University of Minnesota is holding a school-wide referendum, backed by radical student groups, that takes the position of Hamas and absurdly accuses Israel, which is attempting to rescue the hostages and liberate the Gazan people, of "war crimes." This is a vile affront to the victims and survivors of the actual massacre.

The referendum demands that the University of Minnesota adopt the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement by divesting its endowment fund from companies that do business with Israel and calls on the university to terminate all study abroad trips and programs to Israel. BDS activity on college campuses has been linked to an increase in antisemitic activity on campus and only inflames tensions in already dangerous environments for Jewish students.

Hamas and its supporters have waged a long-term, well-funded campaign to delude Americans into accepting their attempt to portray Israel as somehow uniquely "illegitimate" as a state. Combined with the broadest wave of antisemitism in the West since the 1940s, the Jewish community is being made to feel deeply unsafe, marginalized, and othered, particularly in the university context.

Call on the University of Minnesota administration to act now to shut down this hateful, slanderously antisemitic petition. With the level of rhetoric against Jewish people and Israelis that has already been permitted in this environment, popularizing such malicious and clearly false claims and granting legitimacy to the antisemitic BDS Movement will only serve to inflame an already traumatic situation.

SIGN THE PETITION

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