Overview

• More than 200 students—around 15% of the student body—petitioned last month to remove Benjamin Netanyahu over an ICC arrest warrant accusing him of war crimes in Gaza.
• On July 18, officers of the alumni association and district officials met to review the petition but did not make a final determination.
• The association’s secretary indicated a preference to keep Netanyahu’s plaque intact while appending details of his legal controversies to his hall of fame entry.
• Netanyahu graduated in 1967 and was inducted into Cheltenham’s hall of fame in 1999 during his first term as prime minister.
• Student petitioners argue that honoring a figure under indictment undermines the role model values the hall of fame is intended to promote.