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Students urge trustees to act after campus antisemitism complaints, cite broken promises
Summary
Two students and an alumna's family representative told the University of Illinois Board of Trustees that Jewish students have faced harassment during a student referendum and protests and urged trustees to enforce the university's commitments to student safety and civil-rights protections.
Two students and a family representative used the board's public-comment period to say Jewish students have faced harassment on campus, to describe specific incidents during a student referendum and protests, and to urge the Board of Trustees to ensure administrators enforce the university's commitments to protect students.
"If you have compassion, empathy, and a sense of decency, you'll understand that you need to act to ensure that hostility faced by Jewish students does not continue," said Matan Milotic, a student at Urbana studying economics, who described…
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