The antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement notched another campus victory on Monday at Yale University, where students approved a referendum demanding the Ivy League powerhouse sever financial ties with Israel.

Engineered by the pro-Hamas Sumud Coalition, the referendum calls for Yale to both expose and eliminate investments in weapons manufacturers arming Israel while redirecting funds toward Palestinian scholars.

“University leaders have long tried to paint pro-Palestine and pro-divestment students as a fringe minority. The results of this referendum demonstrate that in reality, the movement for a free Palestine and a more ethical endowment is overwhelmingly popular,” Sumud leader Han Pimental-Hayes told Yale Daily News.

In a statement, the university said the student body’s decision will be “formally transmitted to President Maurie McInnis this week,” even though Yale’s administration had previously rebuffed similar divestment demands.

In April, Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility explicitly ruled that military manufacturing for Israel serves “socially necessary uses,” including law enforcement and national security. That decision sparked violent protests resulting in 47 arrests at Beinecke Plaza, where demonstrators had vowed a hunger strike until Yale capitulated. During the chaos, one Jewish student was assaulted.

While Yale Daily News is celebrating the vote as a win, actual support tells a different story as the total turnout amounted to barely one-third of the student body. This also isn’t the first time the paper’s anti-Israel judgement has raised eyebrows. Just days after the October 7 Hamas massacre against Israel, editors stripped references to the rape and beheading of Israeli civilians from a student column, labeling these verified accounts as “unsubstantiated claims.”