Anti-Israel student activists at Harvard University are pushing forward with a referendum on whether the school should divest from Israel, a move that may violate rules barring the undergraduate student government from taking positions on global issues.
A petition launched on Tuesday gathered the 195 signatures needed to trigger a college-wide referendum in just three hours, according to the Harvard Crimson. The undergraduate push follows Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School’s student governments voting to divest from the Jewish State in recent weeks.
If referendum bylaws are followed and signatures are verified, the vote will be held within three weeks and include the proposed question: “Should Harvard divest from institutions that profit from and/or aid Israel’s war on Gaza and the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine?”
Two Harvard students told The Daily Wire that the petition is a violation of the student government bylaws, which state the Harvard Undergraduate Association can “not publish statements on world or campus issues/events.”
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