Response to Chancellor Gillman’s October 10 Email about Israel and Palestine

2024-01-30T20:12:12-08:00

On October 24, AGS passed a resolution affirming our commitment to supporting all UCI graduate students and condemning the failure of Chancellor Gillman to acknowledge the violence experienced by people in Palestine. On October 10, Chancellor Gillman sent an email to the student body that acknowledged the “horrific massacre of innocent individuals in Israel by Hamas.” However, he failed to acknowledge that, at the time of his email, Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza had already killed 830 Palestinian civilians. Violence against Palestinian civilians has only continued to escalate; as of October 24, more than 5,700 Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank have been [...]