The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/israel-hamas-war/)
Student Assembly members voted to indefinitely shelve a resolution calling on the Board of Trustees to cut financial ties with nine weapons manufacturers and called into question the Spring 2024 divestment referendum results.
About 100 people gathered to call for solidarity and an end to U.S. support for violence in Palestine.
The editors of the Palestine/Israel Review spoke about the societies’ intertwined histories and inspiration behind the journal’s publication.
Students opposed to the divestment referendum argued that the questions were not phrased neutrally in Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting.
After the Common Council passed a ceasefire resolution in a 10-1 vote during a heated meeting on Wednesday, Ithaca is now one of five municipalities in New York to support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
The Student Assembly rejected Resolution 51, which urged Cornell to divest from companies “committing morally reprehensible actions” in Gaza, with a 16-4 vote.
Following an open letter from Jon Lindseth ’56 calling for President Martha Pollack’s resignation, the Cornell Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve Pollack’s leadership.
In an exclusive interview, Ryan Lombardi and Joel Malina discuss the campus climate following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, including the antisemitic threats made by a Cornell student, Prof. Rickford’s remark and the University’s controversial statements on these matters.
President Martha Pollack made a statement that “an explicit call for genocide, to kill all members of a group of people, would be a violation” of Cornell’s policies amid backlash at other universities.
Pro-Palestinian students occupied various campus buildings from midday Friday, Dec. 1 until 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 3, after the University agreed to meet to discuss divestment.