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Hours after the vote, leaders of campus Jewish groups strongly objected to the resolution calling it “one-dimensional and myopic to the point of willful ignorance, unworthy of this university’s dedication to the world-shaping power of truth.”
“Of greater importance, the statement’s silence on Israeli deaths [in the Gaza War] … sends a chilling message that Jewish lives and deaths are unworthy of comment, much less moral outrage,” said the letter, signed by Slifka Center for Jewish Life Excutive Director Uri Cohen, Yale chaplain Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, and Hillel student board co-presidents Ruthie Davis and Zevi Siegal.