Cornell University’s Student Assembly on Thursday voted to cut ties with Israel’s Technion University and condemned the university for hosting center-left Israeli politician Tzipi Livni.

The resolutions highlighted how campus anti-Israel activism brings together university politics, unproven international legal allegations and representative groups dedicated to other causes to advance opposition to Israel.

The Student Assembly represents Cornell’s undergraduate student body to the university administration and is meant to improve student life on campus through issues like transportation. Resolutions approved by the assembly are brought to the university president, who can accept or reject the measures.

The resolution targeting the Technion called on Cornell to “terminate its institutional partnership” with the Israeli university, one of Israel’s leading institutions of higher education.

The measure cited “serious ethical concerns” and “complicity in genocide,” alleging that Technion’s involvement with the Israeli military violated international law.

Cornell operates a campus in New York City in partnership with the Technion.

The assembly adopted the resolution on Thursday with 17 votes in favor and five opposed.

The second resolution condemned Cornell’s “use of programming to platform individuals implicated in war crimes,” due to a Cornell program called Pathways to Peace that hosted Israeli lawmaker Tzipi Livni.

Livni is a former Knesset member and minister, a........

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