About 800 University of Sydney Students Vote to Support ‘One Palestinian State’
Almost 800 Sydney University students have voted for their student body to support “one Palestinian state” and affirmed “the right of Palestinians to armed resistance” at a rare student general meeting, as the university seeks police advice on the legality of material used to promote the event.
Students overflowed into four lecture theatres, voting against an amendment to “condemn Hamas” almost unanimously.
The pro-Palestine Student Representative Council will now “endorse the call for a single, secular democratic state across all of historic Palestine and affirms the right of Palestinians to armed resistance as an occupied people under international law”, after the motion by activist group Students Against War (SAW) passed at the meeting with only a few votes against it.
Pro-Terrorist
Ahead of the SGM (Student General Meeting), SAW circulated pamphlets on campus with the Hamas triangle symbol on it, and their motion defended the views of a student expelled by the Australian National University for saying Hamas deserved “unconditional support”.
Following the meeting, the University said it does “not tolerate any pro-terrorist statements or commentary, including support for Hamas – and any demonstration of support will result in disciplinary action and other possible legal consequences.”
“The University is investigating reports of inappropriate conduct at the meeting and has sought police advice on the legality of certain material used to promote the event,” a spokesperson said.
The motion by SAW said to “win” the campaign for Palestine at Sydney University, student activists “must commit themselves to building a mass, militant student movement on campus” that “affirms the right of Palestinians to armed resistance, and backs the call for a single, democratic, secular state from the river to the sea”.
After hearing from two affirmative speakers, students elected to go to the vote without further debate. A separate motion by pro-Palestine encampment group Students for Palestine USYD repeated demands made throughout the student protests for the university to cut ties with Thales and weapons companies, and Israeli academic institutions, and divest from financial investment in the Jewish state.
Disgraceful
Only two speakers in opposition were given the stage. “We have just witnessed in this room voting against an amendment condemning a registered terrorist organisation and one of the worst attacks on Jews since the Holocaust,” the first speaker, who did not identify himself, said. In response, a Students Against War representative in the front rows spat towards the speaker.
A second negative speaker, who spoke from the front of the lecture theatre draped in an Israeli flag, was called a “Zionist” and told to leave the stage.
Following the event, organisers led students in a march on vice-chancellor Mark Scott’s office and could be heard chanting, “We don’t want your two states, we want all of ’48”.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin said, “This travesty disgraces the university.
“It raises serious questions about the failure of its administration to stop this open support for terrorism.
“Jewish students and academics should not be subjected to motions from fellow students effectively supporting the destruction of their national home and calls for Palestinian terrorism, which has always targeted both Israel and Jewish targets abroad,” he said.
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Republished with thanks to the Australian Prayer Network. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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