Late Tuesday night, the student government at UCLA voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling on the university to divest from the State of Israel. The move, sponsored by the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine, passed on the same day that two Palestinian terrorists murdered five Jews, including three Americans, as they prayed in a synagogue in Jerusalem.

This is the second time that students at UCLA have voted on the topic of divestment from Israel in the last year. A similar resolution failed to pass in February on a 7-5 vote after TruthRevolt's Ben Shapiro made an impassioned defense of the Jewish State. This time, pro-divestment activists took steps to prevent outside supporters of Israel from attending the event and a heavy security contingent required student ID or a media pass to gain admission to the hearing.

In fact, not a single pro-Israel voice was heard during the hearing, in part because of a strategy by so-called pro-Israel groups like Hillel, Bruins for Israel and J Street U to boycott the proceedings. As reported by Jared Sichel at the Jewish Journal, Hillel UCLA President Natalie Charney encouraged her community to sit this one out and instead hosted an alternative meeting to discuss ways of strengthening their campus community.

“We don’t validate this conversation, not in a space where people are able to spew hatred and anti-Semitism,” Charney said. “We didn’t subject Jewish students, pro-Israel students, to the hate that is in this room.”

The resolution passed 8-2.