Hillel urges Ohio U to apologize for pro-Israel arrests
Jewish campus group head calls on university to ‘make wrong right’ in stir over ‘Blood Bucket Challenge’
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The President of Hillel International called on Ohio University to apologize to four pro-Israel students who were arrested during a protest.
“I cannot understand how the university administration could have possibly allowed the university police to arrest these students,” Eric Fingerhut said in his letter Friday to Dr. Roderick McDavis, the university’s president. “These students are owed an apology from the students.
Pro-Israel students had staged a filibuster during Wednesday night’s meeting of the Ohio University Student Senate.
The students called for the resignation of Student Senate President Megan Marzec over a recently recorded video in which Marzec poured a bucket of “blood” (red-colored water) over her head to support the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
When the protesters would not stop speaking, Marzec asked the Senate to vote on whether the protesters should be arrested, and when that was approved, police removed them.
They were charged with a fourth degree misdemeanor, disturbing a lawful meeting.
Fingerhut, a former US congressman from Ohio, noted his longstanding relationship with the university in his letter.
“I urge you to personally take charge of the university’s response to the arrest of the students, and to see that this wrong is made right,” Fingerhut wrote.
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