Harvard Grad Union Endorses Anti-Israel BDS Movement Amid Backlash From Jewish Alumni

The turnout for the vote was the largest in the union’s history for a non-contract vote.

A tourist photographs a sign painted on a wall in the biblical town of Bethlehem on June 5, 2015, calling to boycott Israeli products coming from Jewish settlements. Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images

Harvard University’s graduate student union has voted to endorse the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, a move that risks further ire from the Ivy League school’s Jewish affiliates who are threatening to withhold donations.

The roughly 600-member Harvard Graduate Student Union voted on Nov. 10 to support a BDS statement from some rank-and-file members of the United Auto Workers, the national union to which the Harvard group belongs, according to student newspaper The Harvard Crimson.