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Today was supposed to be D-Day for Students for Justice in Palestine protesters at California State University Sacramento. As the Globe reported last Thursday, after giving protesting students until midnight to vacate their campus tent encampment on campus, CSU Sacramento’s administration capitulated the next morning – CSU President Dr. Luke Wood moved the line – to May 8th giving the ignorant, infantilized students another week to protest and disrupt the campus.
Today is May 8th.
California State University Sacramento’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine announced Wednesday that the University President has caved to their demands, and has agreed to investigate and divest in Israel-tied investments.
Their Instagram page reports:
After 2 Weeks Of Protesting, Last Night @sacstateStudents Have Won The Battle To Have Sac State Finally Be Divested! Sac State Becomes The First University In America To Be Divested.
@sacstate Campus President @drlukewood has already made it a campus policy to divest both direct and indirect investments of Sac State and auxiliary investments. He has disclosed direct campus investments online and has announced that all protesting students will be provided amnesty.
•No direct or indirect investment that supports any genocide, ethnic cleansing or human rights violations.
•Up to 20 students from Gaza will be offered to attend Sac State.
•There will be amnesty for everyone at the camp.
•Someone from the Faculty for Justice in Palestine will sit on the finance committee.
•Divestments will be disclosed on CSUS website.
•5/24 official date for divestment.
#916 #916now #sacramento #sac #sacramentostate#sacstate #palestine #israel #csus #humanrights
Students for Justice in Palestine and other groups have led pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine protests on campus since late April.
Dr. Luke Wood, 41, was vice president for Student Affairs and Campus Diversity, at San Diego State before becoming Sac State president. I’m taking a stab in the dark, but he probably hasn’t ever heard that negotiating with terrorists encourages more terrorism.
The Sacramento Bee reported:
“The agreement to change its investment policy language came late Tuesday night between the protesters and California State University, Sacramento, according to both sides. The move makes Sac State one of the first CSU campuses to agree to alter its policies amid the ongoing war in Gaza, which has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians living in Gaza since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,200 Israelis in the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
Updates to Sac State’s policies, signed off on by university President Luke Wood, show a variety of changes.
It includes Sac State seeking its five auxiliaries to investigate its direct and indirect investments to ensure practices of only ‘socially responsible investment strategies which include not having direct investments in corporations and funds that profit from genocide, ethnic cleansing, and activities that violate fundamental human rights.’”
It sure sounds as if CSU Sacramento President Wood has handed his leadership card over to the student groups.
Yet, this isn’t the State Department – these are federal government issues and responsibilities – not the role of university presidents, and certainly not the role of ignorant, arrogant students.
The Students for Justice in Palestine and several other non-university affiliated groups have been camped out on the library quad since April 29 in protest of the war between Israel and Hamas, the Bee reported.
While the Bee reports that demonstrations on Sac State’s campus have remained “peaceful,” allowing the protesters to illegally occupy the campus, and then extort anti-Israel, anti-semitic policies out of the school’s leaders is reprehensible, and should be reported as such.
University Presidents across the country appear terrified of dealing with conflict. But by pretending to appease both sides as they clearly think they are doing, is taking a side.
Because these protests are in support of Hamas, are pro-Palestine, and anti-Israel. Many of the protesters chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Their goal is not a two-state solution; their goal is to obliterate Israel.
Why didn’t President Wood tell the protestors to first condemn the deadly attacks on Israel, and the violent rapes and murders of women and children, and only then would he have a discussion with them? In effect, he is also supporting Hamas and anti-semitism.
Let’s remember who these student (and non-student) protesters are:
Students for Justice in Palestine, they are a growing, dangerous group, with presence on far too many US universities as their below map shows.
“Supporting over 350 Palestine solidarity organizations across occupied Turtle Island (“North America”), we aim to develop a student movement that is connected, disciplined, and equipped with the tools necessary achieve Palestinian liberation,” their website proudly proclaims (emphasis Students for Justice in Palestine).
Here is more from their website:
And now we know just how well coordinated these protests really are. A dry run for November? You can bet on it – and Governor Newsom is all-in on it, by his very conspicuous silence.
Here is another map the New York Post made showing the universities which have Students for Justice in Palestine. The NY Post also links the money stream to all of the donors, including Soros. “At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).”
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Author: Katy Grimes
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