WASHINGTON,D.C.-Indian-American Milan Chatterjee, of UCLA was honored with the inaugural Campus Courage Award by the American Jewish Committee here. The award honors students who have demonstrated unusual courage and moral clarity in standing up to anti-Semitism and the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, according to a press release. “AJC is a remarkable organization, and I’m deeply honored to receive...
the inaugural Campus Courage Award,” said Chatterjee, president of the UCLA Graduate Student Association, who is entering his third year at UCLA Law School.
He was honored for standing up to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which sought his removal from office after he told a campus group that funding for a diversity event was contingent on a “zero engagement/endorsement policy toward Divest from Israel” or any related BDS movement organization. The Association later found Chatterjee guilty of violating the student body’s constitution, but voted not to take action against him. “SJP, with the support of Palestine Legal and ACLU of Southern California, launched a vicious public relations and legal campaign against me, solely because my administration chose to remain neutral on the BDS issue,” Chatterjee said. “Consequently, I gained first-hand exposure to how the BDS movement has created a hostile and unsafe campus climate at American universities. I especially empathize with my Jewish fellow students, who are being systematically harassed and bullied by this movement.”
He was honored for standing up to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which sought his removal from office after he told a campus group that funding for a diversity event was contingent on a “zero engagement/endorsement policy toward Divest from Israel” or any related BDS movement organization. The Association later found Chatterjee guilty of violating the student body’s constitution, but voted not to take action against him. “SJP, with the support of Palestine Legal and ACLU of Southern California, launched a vicious public relations and legal campaign against me, solely because my administration chose to remain neutral on the BDS issue,” Chatterjee said. “Consequently, I gained first-hand exposure to how the BDS movement has created a hostile and unsafe campus climate at American universities. I especially empathize with my Jewish fellow students, who are being systematically harassed and bullied by this movement.”
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