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Two New Jersey faculty unions have both endorsed an anti-Israel measure, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).

On Friday, the presidents of Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Adjunct Faculty Union released a joint declaration after approximately 60 percent of their respective members voted to request divestment from Israel.

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“Our unions have many battles ahead,” write Todd Wolfson and Bryan Sacks. “We will need to work together to resist the Rutgers administration’s ongoing attempts to undermine our contract wins.”

“We will see the consequences on Rutgers of the incoming Trump administration’s looming assault on all higher education,” they continue. “In confronting the challenges that 2025 will bring, we will be stronger if we are united across union, rank, department, school and campus – as we were during our victorious strike in 2023.”

It approved solution would specifically divest itself of the “Genocide in Palestine,” noting that Israel “has been accused of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and dehumanization of Palestinians,” and that Israeli universities “play a key role in supporting Israel’s system of apartheid rule.”

The measure further calls on Rutgers and the Rutgers University Foundation to end it partnership with Tel Aviv University and “prohibit any future cooperation on Israeli military or intelligence technology.”

Faculty union members also voted to request the institution to “(p)onduct a comprehensive review of the university’s endowment to identify and end investments that support Israeli state and military operations, Israeli colonialism, apartheid and genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Palestinian people . .”

The resolution also calls for divestment from companies that promote “human rights abuses of Palestine,” such as Amazon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

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Prior to the final vote, the Rutgers JFAS (Jewish Faculty, Administrators and Staff) released 15 reasons why the referendum should be rejected, stating that the document is “antithetical to the goal of improving working conditions for Rutgers faculty and adjuncts; violates and undermines academic freedom; and discriminates on the basis of nationality, ethnicity, and religion.”

According to his websiteRutgers AAUP-AFT is made up of over 5,000 members who are “committed to using our power as workers and trade unionists to advance the cause of social justice, democracy and equality.”