" ‘The fight isn’t over’: UMich students take part in silent pro-Palestine demonstration at Senate Assembly”

" ‘The fight isn’t over’: UMich students take part in silent pro-Palestine demonstration at Senate Assembly”

 MICHIGAN DAILY (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

January 30, 2024 

 https://www.michigandaily.com/news/administration/the-fight-isnt-over-umich-students-take-part-in-silent-pro-palestine-demonstration-at-senate-assembly/

 

“…The first resolution the Senate Assembly voted on condemned the administration’s cancellation of the CSG midterm ballot. The second called on the Board of Regents to divest from companies invested in Israel. The first resolution passed with 38 in favor, 17 against and 5 abstaining, and the second passed with 37 yes, 15 no and 5 abstaining. 

 

“In an email to The Daily, Silvia Pedraza, professor of sociology and American culture and Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs member, wrote that she believes the resolution came from faculty members seeing the ongoing violence in Gaza and wanting to take action to end the University’s support for it.

 

“I believe it came out of the distress faculty feel at seeing so many Palestinians in Gaza killed, their families destroyed, their bodies maimed,” Pedraza wrote… “the faculty vote indicates they want the leadership of the University not to collaborate with the enormous harm the people in Gaza are enduring.”

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