By Jennifer Nuelle | The Daily Caller
A trustee at Brown University announced his resignation on Sunday over the school’s vote on Israel divestment.
The university’s highest governing body, “The Corporation,” will vote on the divestment during its October meeting, which was decided after an agreement was made between administrators and “encampment organizers” in April, according to the Brown Daily Herald. Joseph Edelman, a trustee since 2019, noted that Brown’s plan to hold a divestment vote in the first place was based on “weakness towards student activists,” not facts and values.
“I find it morally reprehensible that holding a divestment vote was even considered, much less that it will be held—especially in the wake of the deadliest assault on the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Edelman said in the letter published by the WSJ. “On Oct. 7, 2023, Israel was invaded and brutally attacked by Palestinian terrorists.”