Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine. (Photo: Greg Cook)
Editor’s Note: This latest installment of The Shift was written before the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. For more on that, including responses from Israeli leaders who have been perhaps Donald Trump’s greatest allies, see this article by Phil Weiss.
A Setback at Fordham
Fordham Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have been fighting to get recognized as an official campus club for five years. The school claims that they rejected the club because SJP chapters often disrupt campus operations and “the promotion of BDS was the cause of many of the safety and security issues.”
The odds of Washington and Tehran making progress to revive the 2015 nuclear deal before Iran s June elections have dwindled.
The Elections Commission of the Tufts Community Union (ECOM) stated, “The full wordings of the referenda were not made public at least nine days before the election as required by the Constitution.”
In addition, it said, “The referenda did not have a receipt date with the Elections Commission at least seven days before the vote, as required by the Elections Commission bylaws.”
Bizarrely, ECOM nonetheless declared that the results were valid.
The Real Reform at Tufts Campaign, a grassroots student movement which opposed the resolution, said in a statement, “We are deeply disappointed in the results of the antisemitic ‘deadly exchange’ referendum.”