Demand Cornell Shut Down 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 Cornell University has not been spared.

Late last week, the Cornell Student Assembly circumvented their standard procedures to pass a resolution to bring a campus-wide referendum calling for the campus to endorse the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement. The referendum, backed by radical student groups, will create an even more hostile campus towards Jews on a campus that has already had the FBI make arrests against individuals making credible threats towards the Jewish community.

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 Cornell University's 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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