NYU Graduate Student Union Adopts BDS Resolution - Israel News - Haaretz
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Resolution passes with 66.5 percent in favor, additional 57 percent pledging to boycott Israeli academic institutions; vote is ’at odds with the principles of academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas,’ NYU says.
A graduate student union at New York University passed a motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel on Friday.
The resolution was backed by two-thirds of voters with over 600 union members participating in the vote, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, which represents more than 2,000 graduate teaching and research assistants at NYU, said.
According to the resolution, the union will continue to support the boycott until “Israel complies with international law and ends the military occupation, dismantles the wall, recognizes the rights of Palestinian citizens to full equality, and respects the right of return of Palestinian refugees and exiles,” a statement on the union’s website read.
The resolution called for the union and its parent, the United Auto Workers, to divest from Israeli companies and for NYU to close its program in Tel Aviv University, which it said violates the university’s non-discrimination policy.
In addition, 57 percent of union members took a personal pledge to boycott Israeli government and academic institutions “complicit in Israeli violation of Palestinian rights.”
