The rector of St Andrews University in Scotland has been removed from the institution’s governing body over comments she made about Israel’s ongoing “genocidal attacks” on Gaza.
Last November, Stella Maris sent an email to the university’s students in which she shared her “personal perspectives and understanding regarding the Israeli-Palestine conflict directly to the students who elected me.”
She urged students “to seek the most recent information and exercise due diligence before taking any action based on this email’s contents.”
Included in her email, Maris said: “We must continue to recognize and condemn acts that are internationally regarded as humanitarian and war crimes. These include practices such as apartheid, siege, illegal occupation and collective punishment, which have been observed in the treatment of Palestinians.”