Disclaimer: SGA president Dhruvak Mirani is a former Diamondback opinion columnist.

Three University of Maryland SGA members filed student conduct reports against this university’s Students Supporting Israel chapter for an Instagram post that includes their names and photographs.

The post, made on Nov. 11, shared the names and pictures of Student Government Association president Dhruvak Mirani along with representatives Hasan Islam and Zyad Khan. Islam and Khan sponsored a resolution calling for the ban of Israel Defense Forces soldiers on campus.

The resolution, which passed 25-0-1 on Nov. 5, came after Students Supporting Israel hosted three IDF soldiers at a campus event on Oct. 21, where UMPD detained two protesters and two student journalists. The resolution urged the university to condemn the event with the soldiers and to prohibit student organizations and academic departments from hosting speakers on campus who have been found guilty of or are actively being investigated for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity or systematic human rights violations.

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In response to the resolution, Students Supporting Israel posted on Instagram that Mirani, Islam and Khan were “the three students behind the IDF ban on campus.” The post is partnered with an account titled “endjewhatredoncampus.”

SGA’s resolution does not institute a ban on campus. It signals the organization’s support for the university to condemn the event, issue an apology to the four people who were detained and prohibit student organizations or departments hosting people under its detailed guidelines.

Mirani said the post was problematic because it mimicked a post made earlier this year by the organization Stop Antisemitism — which has hundreds of thousands of followers across several social media platforms and targets individuals it says are antisemitic. Opponents to the organization argue it contributes to targeted online harassment and doxing.

Comments under the X post alleged the students were antisemitic and also called them derogatory names based on their appearance and faith.

He said the Students Supporting Israel post was an attempt to direct animosity toward the three SGA members.

“I thought it was unprofessional and inflammatory,” Mirani said.

He filed a report to the student conduct office on Nov. 15 and provided factual information about the contents of the post, Mirani said. On Nov. 17, he received an email from James Bond, this university’s student conduct director, that stated no disciplinary action would be taken as a result of the student group’s post.

“Their posting of this information is not violative of the Code of Student Conduct, however upsetting the behavior is to you,” Bond wrote in an email to Mirani, which was reviewed by The Diamondback. “We will continue to monitor this issue.”

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Khan had suggested the three students file the conduct reports because “no one is above the rules.” He said the group spread misinformation because there is no actual ban on Israeli soldiers on campus. There was simply a resolution passed by the SGA, Khan explained.

This university previously told The Diamondback that SGA’s decisions have no bearing on university policy or practice.

“The fact that [Students Supporting Israel] have the audacity to target three students and still not condemn the genocide is very, very eye opening,” Khan said.

Khan added he did not receive a response from the student conduct office regarding his report.

Islam, who filed his report on Nov. 18, said he talked to Students Supporting Israel members at a tabling event on campus after he saw the post and asked them to at least tag him in it. But the members “laughed it off,” Islam said. He described the post as a “standard response from Zionist students.”

“They didn’t really have any deep thoughts about it as terms of the consequences of posting about that,” Islam said.

A spokesperson for this university declined to comment on the reports. Students Supporting Israel did not respond to a request for comment.