Commentary: Through a flawed ‘community input’ process, Princeton delays action during a genocide

October 11, 2024 1 min read

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Sofia Menemenlis, Jessica Ng, Hellen Wainaina, and Givarra Azhar Abdullah
Daily Princetonian

Excerpt: At the CPUC meeting on Sept. 30, Resources Committee Chair Jay Groves announced the establishment of an online portal to solicit “community input” on the divestment proposal, which would remain open for 12 days. With respect to the mechanics of this process, Groves indicated that the Committee did not have specific plans for how it would consider the feedback it was soliciting, nor whether and how it would meet with interested groups.

Setting aside broader questions about the role of “consensus” in situations of social injustice, we write to express our concern with this post-hoc, poorly defined, and inadequately communicated process.

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James Andersen
James Andersen

October 18, 2024

Princeton University appears to be failing to educate its students or teach them to do research before making ridiculous proclamations. Since the students who wrote this article don’t have any idea what genocide is it would behoove them to read the Hamas Covenant. Here are a couple of excerpts which are the very definition of genocide: “ The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ’O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” Hamas will never stop raping and murdering until its leaders renounce this Covenant.

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