“This is a step in the direction that joins the student’s government and the People’s Resolution to call the University to disclose and divest.”
What does this issue even have to do with a labor union? These anti- Israel activists take over organizations and then use them for their agenda.Members of Northwestern University Graduate Workers voted 82-13 to adopt a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel at the union’s Oct. 9 general members meeting.
Almost two decades old, BDS is a Palestinian-led movement that calls for the boycott of companies and institutions with financial ties to Israel. The organization’s boycott practices first drew inspiration from those used in the South African anti-apartheid fight and the U.S. civil rights movement. NUGW’s resolution includes a bevy of action items. One stipulates that the union’s funds shall not be spent on goods or services from any of the companies identified by the BDS National Committee for a targeted boycott.
Another states that the union shall not co-sponsor events that are held in conjunction with or that collaborate in any manner with Israeli universities. A third declares that NUGW will not cooperate on NU’s partnerships with Israeli universities. “As graduate workers, we’re uniquely positioned, because we’re workers and students in a university,” said Mounica Sreesai, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in anthropology and a union area chief steward. in April by NU’s chapters of Educators for Justice in Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, demanding the University protect the civil liberties of pro-Palestine speech and cut ties with Israeli institutions.
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