Chancellor Javier Reyes

[LS71]

^ Agreed!

[inthescoop]

Not wanting innocent children to be murdered and starve to death is pro terrorism? Why stop now guys, keep showing your true evil. I guarantee you that you are on the wrong side of history here.

[McKinney]

athletics aside, there was also this-

Other student and faculty organizations have also cast no-confidence votes, some in response to the 132 arrests in ending the pro-Palestinian encampment in May 2024."

I have to say, I wish he acted to end the pro terrorist activities sooner rather than later.

Regardless of whether you agree with their demands, I think you can acknowledge that neither the demands nor the tactics were unreasonable or unprecedented. UMass has divested on moral grounds before, apartheid South Africa in the 1980s and fossil fuels in 2016, both only after disruptive protests and initial administrative resistance.

Divestment and disclosure don’t stop Israel in any meaningful way. They simply ask that UMass not participate in, or benefit from, the profits of the war.