A resolution denouncing Yale University for distributing $1 million through a donor-advised fund to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces failed in the student government on Sunday.
The resolution, which JNS viewed, stated that the university should issue a statement taking accountability for the November 2023 donation and pledge to reject future donor-advised distributions that “provide support to organizations implicated in genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing or other human-rights violations.”
The Yale College Council Senate voted 12-12 on the resolution with three abstentions, according to the Yale Daily News, a student paper.
Elijah Wiesel, a second-year student at Yale who is Jewish, told JNS that “anyone who voted in favor of the YCC resolution is so blinded by hatred for Israel that they didn’t understand what actually happened” as the donation was made through a donor-advised fund and not from tuition or student fees.
Wiesel said the council should “stick to petitioning for menu changes and bringing artists for spring fling.”
