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 Sept. 12 letter to Roderick David, the university’s president.
Pro-Israel students had staged a filibuster during the Sept. 10 meeting of the university’s student senate. They called for the resignation of the senate’s president, Megan Marzec, because of 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. The vote was approved and police removed them.
The protesters were charged with a fourth-degree misdemeanor, disturbing a lawful meeting. — jta