The University of Maryland Student Government Association passed a boycott, divestment and sanctions resolution on Yom Kippur, drawing condemnation from Jewish leaders on campus who said its scheduling was “exclusionary.”
The resolution, which passed 29 to 1 Wednesday night, calls on the university and its charitable foundation to implement BDS policies against companies and academic policies that it says “support or profit from Israel’s regime of apartheid and occupation.” The resolution is symbolic and campus officials have said it will not influence university investments.
The vote was criticized by the executive director of UMD’s Hillel chapter, who said it excluded Jewish students from the process by being held on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar…