ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA NEWS RELEASE ZOA: Northwestern Univ. Pres. Schill, Provost Hagerty and Student Affairs VP Davis Must Be Fired Immediately for Agreeing to Appease Antisemitic Pro-Hamas Trespassers Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: It is appalling that Northwestern University President Michael Schill, Provost Kathleen Hagerty and Vice President for Student Affairs Susan Davis entered into a lopsided, dangerous agreement to appease numerous demands of the antisemitic, anti-American, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas “NU (Northwestern Univ.) Divestment Coalition”. The agreement rewards the NU Divestment Coalition’s trespass and five-day illegal encampment/occupation of Northwestern’s Deering Meadow; rewards the trespassers’ abominable, threatening behavior towards Jewish students; will cost Northwestern University many millions of dollars; will increase antisemitism and anti-Israel propagandizing at Northwestern; and will result in the NU Divestment Coalition taking further dangerous actions and making further bigoted antisemitic demands against Northwestern. Indeed, the NU Divestment Coalition’s organizers emphasized that their achievements in the agreement are only a “floor” for continuing their action to obtain even more concessions. President Schill, Provost Hagerty, and VP Davis should be fired immediately for this disaster – and this dangerous agreement must be rescinded! If a group of white supremacists took over Deering Meadow and chanted for the deaths of Blacks, the white supremacists would be immediately removed from the campus – not rewarded with scholarships, professorships, buildings, power over vendors and investment powers. The same standard should apply here. The Northwestern officials who negotiated and entered into this agreement must be fired, and their agreement must be thrown in the dustbin. The student and faculty trespassers and promoters of anti-Jewish violence should be arrested and expelled or fired. The Agreement: In this lopsided Agreement, the NU Divestment Coalition only agreed to remove most of their tents – something that they were already obligated to do! In other words, Northwestern gained nothing in the Agreement. (Incidentally, the tents were promptly then moved to pro-Hamas encampments at the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.) On the other hand, the University officials damaged the university, and especially harmed its Jewish students and faculty, by agreeing to: Disclose (“answer questions from internal stakeholders about”) the university’s specific holdings. The NU Divestment Coalition crowed that such disclosure is a first step towards divestment from Israel. Re-establish an Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility (ACIR), including faculty and students, to be a conduit to the Board of Trustees’ Investment Committee. This will further aid the pro-Hamas coalition’s efforts to divest from Israel, Jews, and American companies that do business with Israel. Allow the NU Divestment Coalition to continue occupying the Deering Meadow (with one tent) until the end of the semester (the NU Divestment Coalition promptly brought in lawn chairs to replace the tents.)   CONTINUE READING   DONATE     Share This Email Share This Email Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2024, All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave, 31 B, New York, NY 10017 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected]