The good news comes as a relief to many on campus, who claim to have experienced antisemitic and anti-Zionist harassment in alarming increasing rates over the past five years.
The university has also expressed its commitment to complying with applicable federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws.
The university’s Office of Student Affairs condemned the nonbinding resolution, which passed last week in a 22-11 vote with seven abstentions.
The 20-9 vote in favor of the resolution early Thursday morning followed a five-hour meeting of the student government on the Urbana-Champaign campus. There were seven abstentions.
The resolution calls on the university to "divest from companies that profit from human-rights violations in Palestine"
The net effect was a presentation that romanticized and normalized the murder of Jews and promoted terrorism as reasonable political speech.
More than 400 Jewish students walked out of the university's student government meeting.
"This trip has given me a new perspective on Israel," participant says.
Israel supporters were equated with white supremacists.
One poster compared Zionism to Nazism, calling Gaza the “largest concentration camp in the world.”
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