{"id":179997,"date":"2021-02-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=179997"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:25:05","slug":"tufts-student-government-walks-back-impeachment-of-pro-israel-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tufts-student-government-walks-back-impeachment-of-pro-israel-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Tufts Student Government Walks Back Impeachment of Pro-Israel Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftufts-student-government-walks-back-impeachment-of-pro-israel-member%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=179997&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/800px-Braker_Hall_-_Tufts_University_-_IMG_0949.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tufts University Students for Justice in Palestine withdrew their petition to have a Jewish student government leader impeached for defending Israel, bringing an end to a months-long conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last fall, the Tufts Community Union debated a resolution sponsored by the SJP, which blamed Israel for militarizing U.S. police. Max Price, a union member and Tufts junior, opposed the resolution, citing factual errors.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Campus<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/tufts-student-government-walks-back-impeachment-of-pro-israel-member\/\"><strong>Tufts Student Government Walks Back Impeachment of Pro-Israel Member<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/this-week-in-campus-insanity-vol-33\/\"><strong>This Week in Campus Insanity Vol. 33<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/yale-law-journal-editor-apologizes-for-unwelcoming-culture\/\"><strong>Yale Law Journal Editor Apologizes For \u2018Unwelcoming Culture\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the behest of the SJP, the union barred Price from further debate and moved to impeach him. After facing legal pressure from the Louis D. Brandeis Center, SJP withdrew their complaint Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The resolution Price opposed falsely claimed that Tufts University sent campus police officers to an antiterrorism training program in Israel conducted by the Israeli Defense Force. In reality, the Anti-Defamation League sponsored the event, which included both Israeli and Palestinian police officers, and invited officers to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tufts\u2019s judiciary<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/tufts-students-pass-anti-israel-ballot-measure\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">passed<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the resolution in December.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After voicing his concerns, Price faced months of harassment from other students. He previously told the<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that he had been called a &#8220;racist, a fascist, and a Nazi.&#8221; Tufts largely ignored his series of complaints, Price said. The school once referred him to the Office of Equal Opportunity, which told Price that they don\u2019t deal with allegations of anti-Semitism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Price told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> he thought the office was uninterested in taking up his complaints because it could expose the university to liability for repeatedly failing to address anti-Semitic incidents on campus. In a Feb. 23 letter to school administrators, the Brandeis Center cited more than 30 recent incidents of anti-Semitism that had taken place at the university.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tufts did not step in on Price\u2019s behalf despite the legal pressure. While Price said he\u2019s &#8220;relieved&#8221; he\u2019ll no longer face impeachment, he said he was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; in the university for yet again failing to stand up for Jewish students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They tried to intimidate the Jewish community into silence, to force Jews to renounce their shared heritage, to exclude Jews from leadership,&#8221; Price said in a Brandeis Center press release Friday. &#8220;They got caught. While I am relieved that my Judaism is no longer on trial, this change in course does not absolve SJP of their behavior. I am disappointed that university administrators failed to intervene, and have not yet reached out to me to address my concerns.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students for Justice in Palestine and other Palestinian student activist groups have successfully pressured colleges to denounce Israel\u2014often in the form of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions measures. At least 2,000 anti-Semitic incidents have been documented on U.S. college campuses since 2017, according to a recent<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/report-campus-anti-semitism-skyrockets-even-as-coronavirus-forces-remote-learning\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tufts University Students for Justice in Palestine withdrew their petition to have a Jewish student government leader impeached for defending Israel, bringing an end to a months-long conflict. 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