According to AMCHA, Jewish groups on campus have called on the UIC administration to address the lack of transparency and discriminatory practices of the USG in their treatment of Jewish students during the original USG meeting.
“Considering that Jewish students were held to very different standards than BDS activists, were subject to hostile questioning and were given no clear directives about how to participate in the process, they did a remarkable job,” said Rabbi Seth Winberg, executive director of Metro Chicago Hillel. Hillel, which has been at UIC since the 1960s, has urged the university to provide anti-discrimination training for USG members.
“The anti-Semitic nature of the global BDS movement has poisoned the atmosphere and distorted the debate about issues of concern to many students,” said Emily Briskman, executive director of JUF’s Israel Education Center. “Through their thoughtful, principled and tenacious work, the students at UIC are changing the nature of the debate.”