Pitzer College Student Senate Calls for College President’s Removal Over Israel Study Abroad Program

Haaretz ^ | Apr 2019 | JTA and Marcy Oster

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The Student Senate of California’s Pitzer College has drafted a resolution calling for the removal of College President Melvin Oliver, after he decided to retain Pitzer’s study abroad program in Israel against the recommendation of the Pitzer College Council, made up of students and faculty.

The resolution calls for “enacting no confidence in the President of the College,” and “for his immediate resignation or removal from office,” the Claremont Independent, a student newspaper, reported.

The recommendation to suspend the study abroad program at Haifa University passed with a majority of 68 in favor and 25 opposing. Another eight voters abstained. Shortly afterwards, Oliver rejected the motion, stating that, “I am refusing to permit Pitzer College to take a position that I believe will only harm the College.”

“The recommendation puts in place a form of academic boycott of Israel and, in the process, sets us on a path away from the free exchange of ideas, a direction which ultimately destroys the academy’s ability to fulfill our educational mission,” Oliver wrote in a statement.

Oliver’s veto is the first in Pitzer’s 56-year history, the student newspaper reported, citing the resolution.

The college board of trustees in June 2017 overturned a Student Senate amendment enacting Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, or BDS regulations to Student Senate spending.

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“The recommendation puts in place a form of academic boycott of Israel and, in the process, sets us on a path away from the free exchange of ideas, a direction which ultimately destroys the academy’s ability to fulfill our educational mission,” Oliver wrote in a statement.

(Below: Pitzer College President Melvin Oliver)

The Claremont chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP, on Thursday launched a two week-long “Palestine Freedom Week” in reaction to Oliver’s decision and to what it calls Israel’s “Zionist violence.”

(Below: US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib)

[Red Badger]

The inmates are running the asylum....................

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The correct response would be to dissolve the student senate.

[Nothingburger]

Ohhhh ... I like that idea!

[Regulator]

Hey, mass immigration of Arab terrorists and their sympathizers was instigated by every Jewish organization in this country. Immigration to the US is a sacrament to them, and they willfully and intentionally jackhammered open the door to the animals of the world so they could dilute the Anglo-Saxon dominant population.

So now the little darlings turn out to be lethal.

Live with the consequences. They ALL want Israel to disappear in a nuclear holocaust.

We didn’t want them here, and were called “racist”, “bigot”, “nazi” and every other imaginable slur.

So now the chickens come home to roost.

Deal with it.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fascism is alive and well in our university system.

[doug from upland]

Call him to leave a message of support. The Claremont Colleges are about 7 minutes from me.

Melvin L. Oliver, President
Broad Center, 2nd Floor
PitzerPresident@pitzer.edu
909.621.8198

[KC_Lion]

What a loathsome woman Tlaib is.

[Lazamataz]

College is becoming a place where information is strictly suppressed.

[faithhopecharity]

The school recruited or permitted these Muslim terrorists or enablers to enroll — this is just a small part of the obvious predictable consequences —- the administration needs to expel, bar these evil “students” from campus, immediately so that the campus is no longer abused as a free staging area for any more anti-American or anti-Semitic propaganda “events.” And so that good, decent Americans can send their children to the college again without fear of harm coming to them

[V_TWIN]

What they do not realize is they are being used to do the muslims dirty work....when they are no longer of any use the muslims will “take care” of them as well.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Thanks doug for the headsup:

Call him to leave a message of support. The Claremont Colleges are about 7 minutes from me.

Melvin L. Oliver, President
Broad Center, 2nd Floor
PitzerPresident@pitzer.edu
909.621.8198

[Rummyfan]

“The recommendation puts in place a form of academic boycott of Israel and, in the process, sets us on a path away from the free exchange of ideas, a direction which ultimately destroys the academy’s ability to fulfill our educational mission,” Oliver wrote in a statement.

Bravo President Oliver.

[antidemoncrat]

If these college students are going to be our leaders tomorrow we might as well kiss this Republic goodbye.

[Blurb2350]

I attended one of the Claremont undergraduate colleges. Pitzer has long been known as a nest of far leftwing goofballery. They were especially keen on the Sandinistas, offering to house them in their dorms. (What runaway Sandinistas would be doing in Claremont was never explained.) There was also a petition to make suicide pills available to the student body for use in case of nuclean holocaust.

[bgill]

Students don’t have to do the program unlike required LGBT courses.

[simpson96]

"...Student Senate is committed to upholding the Core Values of Pitzer College in all areas of student life..."

[HamiltonJay]

Hahahahaha.. .this is what happens when you let the nutters think they are important... You are a student body of play acting, you have NO OFFICIAL SAY ON ANYTHING.... Dumbest thing ever.

[1Old Pro]

The kid in the purple shirt and earing and 5 wristbands saving the world isn’t happy.

[Pajamajan]

"Bravo President Oliver."

BUMP