SALT LAKE CITY — A group of faculty, staff and students are petitioning against the University of Utah after the school signed a partnership with an Israeli university in the West Bank.

A petition headed by Faculty for Justice in Palestine is now making the rounds. They petition authors are taking issue with the U’s partnership with Ariel University.

Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies Maile Arvin said the campus is in occupied Palestinian territory.

“Ariel University is located in the West Bank in an Israeli settlement,” Arvin said. “For folks who don’t know about the West Bank, it’s really important to educate ourselves.”

Arvin said that West Bank is segregated and divided and often called an apartheid state. Settlements like Ariel are closed to Palestinians.

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