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Concordia’s undergraduate students have voted in favour of a boycott of Israel, although it remains unclear how such action might actually affect daily life on campus.

The ballots for question No. 8, the most controversial referendum question asked to students in a series of votes held during the past week, were finally counted on Friday evening. They had initially been sealed as a result of the explosive nature of the issue and dozens of complaints to the Concordia Student Union (CSU).

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The question read: “Do you approve of the CSU endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel?”

The “yes” side garnered 1,276 votes, while 1,067 ballots were marked “no.” A total of 237 voters abstained from the question. The overall turnout, at 2,580, was extremely low. There are 35,000 registered undergraduates at Concordia who were eligible to vote.

“We knew from the get-go that any result would be very, very tight,” said Lauren Luz, a member of the “no” committee. “This is the outcome, and this is what the students chose.”