The University of Michigan has canceled a controversial student vote on the conflict between Hamas and Israel.
Jewish groups and Israel supporters contend it was an anti-Israel resolution that labeled the country a genocidal apartheid state.
Resolution AR 13-25 asked students at the Ann Arbor campus to approve “University accountability in the face of genocide.”
The university stopped the vote late last week after the pro-Palestinian Tahrir coalition sent an email to the entire student body urging approval of the resolution. Administration officials called that a violation of university rules and tainted the voting process.
If students had voted and approved the anti-Israel resolution, it may have set a precedent for similar votes at other colleges and universities.
The son of a Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan Yousef addressed students before voting began, saying he could not believe activists asked students to make the choice.
“A mob that force such a respectful educational institution to vote on such a thing is absurd,” he insisted.
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The resolution referred to Palestine as “a victim of settler colonialism” and it called on the University of
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