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Behind the Aegis

(53,980 posts) Mon Dec 2, 2019, 05:27 AM Dec 2019

(Jewish Group) McGill U Jewish student government member ordered to cancel trip to Israel or resign

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A Jewish student leader at McGill University in Montreal is fighting efforts to oust her from the student union for accepting a trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Jocelyn Wright, a member of the Student Society of McGill University’s legislative council and board of directors, said she is “outraged and disgusted” by an SSMU call for her to resign Thursday for agreeing to the trip sponsored by Hillel.

She is refusing to resign or quit the trip, despite the threat of impeachment upon return.

The trip, called “Face to Face,” leaves at the end of the month and includes visiting Palestinian areas of the West Bank.

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“The SSMU president singled me out and actively encouraged others to attack me,” she said in the post, adding that a non-Jewish councillor also planning to be on the trip has not received the same treatment.

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(Jewish Group) McGill U Jewish student government member ordered to cancel trip to Israel or resign (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Dec 2019 OP

The SSMU president is the one who needs to be impeached. madaboutharry Dec 2019 #1

McGill student union board rejects motion for Jewish student to cancel Israel trip or be impeached Behind the Aegis Dec 2019 #2

madaboutharry

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1. The SSMU president is the one who needs to be impeached.

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Mon Dec 2, 2019, 06:48 AM

Dec 2019

Behind the Aegis

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2. McGill student union board rejects motion for Jewish student to cancel Israel trip or be impeached

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Thu Dec 5, 2019, 01:33 AM

Dec 2019

McGill University’s student union did not ratify a call for a Jewish student to resign for accepting a free trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The student union’s board of directors — its chief governing body — rejected a motion on Monday that was passed days earlier by its legislative council that said member Jordyn Wright must resign or face impeachment.

Wright condemned the motion as discriminatory and anti-Semitic. It was also strongly criticized by the McGill administration, the Anti-Defamation League, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and hundreds of McGill students.

Wright was the only McGill student, and the sole Jewish participant, singled out in the motion. At least one other non-Jewish student from McGill and its student union, the Students’ Society McGill University, is attending the trip.

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Bravo, but sad and disgusting it even had to come to this.

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