A student at the University of California, Santa Barbara is speaking out against a meeting held by the student senate to vote on a resolution they wrote calling for the school to divest from companies that assist the Israeli Defense Forces which turned into hours of students making derogatory comments about Jews.
"I am disturbed that half of my student representatives felt it right to pass a resolution that countless Jewish students vocalized as being offensive, threatening and blatantly anti-Semitic," Margaux Gundzik wrote in a letter to the editor. She explained that during the eight-hour meeting, various students made remarks such as "all Jews are rich" and that they all control the government.
Gundzik also added that had members of another minority group raised the same concerns she did, they would have been taken more seriously. "I am ostracized and made fun of by majority groups because I am different, yet at the same time, I am not even afforded the decency of being recognized as a minority by other minority groups," she said.
Read her complete letter to the editor here.
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