Students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are demanding the school rename the campus library named after a former Israeli leader.
Protesters on campus organized a petition demanding that school administrators withdraw from Israel, stop traveling to the country, and remove former Prime Minister Golda Meir's name from the school library.
“In recent weeks, the settler-colonial state of Israel has killed more than 20,000 innocent civilians, displaced more than 1.7 million people, destroyed more than 50,000 homes, 266 schools, and 26 hospitals. , and many more war crimes,” the petition reads.
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This aerial photo shows the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
The anti-Israel petition was drafted by members of the Wisconsin Coalition for Palestine Justice, University Students for a Democratic Society, and the Muslim Student Association, according to The College Fix.
The students are calling on the university to “withdraw from being a weapons manufacturer that supports the Palestinian genocide,” as well as canceling all study abroad programs and student trips to Israel.
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Students are also demanding that the school rename the Golda Meir Library, named after Israel's former prime minister and alumnus of the university, according to College Fix.
“This library is named after Golda Meir, who not only supported the establishment of settler colonies, but was also responsible for the forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, and death of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians,” the petition reads. is written about the former prime minister. .
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Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (1898-1978) speaks at a press conference in Strasbourg, France. (UPI/Bettman Archive/Getty Images)
Meir, who served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1917.
The library was built in 1967 and named in her honor.
Students hosted rallies in support of the petition in November and December, as well as a prayer vigil honoring the “martyrs of Palestine,” according to a report by College Fix.
