Many argued this was beneficial 
for the safety of pro-Palestinian 
students 
from 
damaging 

blacklists. 

Another was the outpouring 

of support: CSG Vice President 
Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy 
senior, took the floor to describe 
her own experiences as an 
Arab 
and 
Muslim 
student. 

She stated her support of the 
resolution, empathizing with the 
feelings Jewish students have 
experienced because she has 
faced marginalization herself.

She urged CSG members to 

support divestment, standing in 
front of the assembly despite the 
possibility of personal backlash.

“We have to continue talking 

about this but we also have to 
recognize if we want equitable 
footing on this, we need to give 
all people an opportunity and a 
voice,” Jawad said.

Public Health graduate student 

Dana Greene Jr., who knelt on 
the Diag for 21 hours to protest 

racism, also showed his support 
for divestment. While he clarified 
he did not see the resolution as 
anti-Israel, he also said he could 
not ignore his moral values.

“I do not ask you to pass this 

resolution as a sentiment against 
Israel … all that I ask is that you 
support all people, including 
Palestinians,” he said. “If one of 
us suffers all of us suffer. … When 
I kneeled on that Diag in pain, I 
watched thousands of students 
walk past me. I ask you today to 
not be one of those people that 
walked past.”

Tuesday morning, the Black 

Student Union tweeted their 
endorsement 
of 
divestment. 

Members of the BSU executive 
board attended the meeting, 
following many other social-
justice oriented organizations in 
supporting Students Allied for 
Freedom and Equality, the group 
that first brought the resolution to 
CSG.

This year, History professor 

Victor 
Lieberman 
was 
not 

approved to join the list of 
speakers, prompting cheers from 
pro-divest students. Lieberman 
teaches 
on 
the 
Arab-Israeli 

conflict, and spoke last year 
heavily 
against 
divestment. 

Then-LSA senior Devin Jones 
criticized 
Lieberman, 
stating 

Lieberman’s 
rhetoric 
victim-

blamed Palestinians. 

Public Policy junior Samuel 

Lawrence spoke on Lieberman’s 
behalf Tuesday night, reading 
from his notes on how BDS aims 
to bring Israel down. Former 
CSG Rep. Gaby Roth, an LSA 
senior, followed, urging current 
CSG members to vote against 
divestment as she did last year as 
she believes the movement is anti-
Semitic and aims to wipe out the 
Jewish population. 

Former 
CSG 
Rep. 
Farah 

Erzouki, a University alum, spoke 
in favor of divestment, addressing 
CSG directly and highlighting that 
the vote isn’t to sanction a country, 
but rather specific companies that 
are tied to allegations of human 
rights violations. Erzouki also 
emphasized the weeks divestment 
is discussed are consistently very 
well-attended by students, as they 
use the meetings as a platform to 
express their views.

“I’ve 
seen 
at 
this 
point 

thousands of students rally 

over leaders in support 
of divestment this issue 
and this request does not 
exist in a vacuum. There is 
long standing and diverse 
support on this issue as you 
have seen.” 

She went on to list 

several institutions whose 
student governing bodies 
pass 
similar 
divestment 

issues. 

“As a former member of 

student government and 
as someone who has been 
on our campus community 
since 2010, this is by far 
the concern that brings 
the 
highest 
number 
of 

students attending these 
meetings time and time 
again and every single 
year. It’s important for 
representatives to really 
grasp what they’re deciding 
— whether they’re deciding 
to amplify the voices of the 
students coming back time 
and time again.”

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