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Yale student govt fails to pass resolution against $1 million donation to pro-Israel group

A Jewish student told JNS that anyone who voted for the resolution is “blinded by hatred for Israel.”

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Berkeley College at Yale University, in New Haven, Conn. Credit: Adam Jones via Wikimedia Commons.

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.”

Aaron Bandler is an award-winning national reporter at JNS based in Los Angeles. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he worked for nearly eight years at the Jewish Journal, and before that, at the Daily Wire.
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