The Resolution Affirming Support for the State of Israel that Senate will be voting on tonight is a travesty. Every word of it represents the extremist pro-Israel position, from the first Whereas clauses that subtly try to deny any right of Palestinians to the land and which gloss over the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that took place during the founding of Israel, to quotes from president Ahmadinejad of dubious authenticity and support for sanctions against Iran (not unlike the ones that killed 500,000 Iraqi children in the 1990s), to trying to cover up the slaughter of over 1,300 innocent civilians by Israel in Gaza this December and January.
In all my time I've been coming to Senate, I've never seen a resolution like this that glorifies the misery and death of thousands of people.
Anyone who supports basic human rights should come out tonight at 7:30 p.m., room 282 of the Reitz Union, and strongly urge Senate to say no to such extremist views.This resolution most certainly does not represent the views of most students at this university, and Senate has no right to speak on our behalf about such a controversy from an extremely one-sided perspective.
