The offices of the Rutgers academic union were defaced with pro-Israel slogans just before a vote on divesting from the Gaza genocide. This blunt intimidation reflects the impunity afforded Zionists, and the urgent need to end Zionist hegemony.
“A Jewish state in Palestine in any shape or form cannot but contravene the basic rights of the land’s indigenous Palestinian population and perpetuate a system of racial discrimination that ought to be opposed categorically.” Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) co-founder Omar Barghouti
On November, 25, 2024, the office building of the Rutgers academic unions (representing tenured, contingent, and graduate student educators) was defaced with pro-Israel posters. “Fight Jew-hatred. Before it’s too late,” said one. “STAND UP FOR THE JEWISH STATE,” demanded another.
As Jewish educators at Rutgers we categorically reject the slanderous insinuation that our unions–led by Jewish presidents and vice presidents–are blind to or bastions of antisemitism. At the same time, we affirm our opposition to all ethnosupremacist states–including the apartheid Israeli state.
The defacement immediately preceded the unions’ membership vote on a groundbreaking “Joint Resolution on Divestment from Genocide in Palestine,” which, we are proud to say, passed by more than 20-point margins in both unions on Friday, December 13.
The resolution mirrors an undergraduate motion that overwhelmingly passed last spring, and aligns with an urgent solidarity appeal from Palestinian trade unions. It calls on Rutgers University to suspend its 2021 memorandum of agreement with Tel Aviv University and disallow any future collaboration on Israeli military or intelligence technology, immediately divest from assets and companies that profit from Israeli apartheid, and terminate investments supporting Israel’s genocide. (more...)
Statement from Jewish Rutgers union members: Zionist hegemony must end
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