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Related: About this forumStanford (student) senate passes Israel divestment measure
The resolution calls for Stanford University trustees to divest from companies that violate international humanitarian law by: maintaining illegal infrastructure of the Israeli occupation
facilitating Israel and Egypts collective punishment of Palestinian civilians
[and] facilitating state repression against Palestinians by Israeli, Egyptian or Palestinian Authority security forces.
On February 11 Stanford students voted on a resolution that called for the university to cease investing in companies that operate out of the West Bank and Gaza. That measure was struck down when it failed to pass the necessary 66 percent of the vote, garnering just 64% with nine votes for, five against and one abstention.
Two student senators requested a motion to reconsider the resolution, saying the anti-divestment bloc had created a hostile environment that prevented them from voting with clarity, the group Stanford Out of Occupied Palestine said in a press release.
When that motion was approved and votes were recast Tuesday, the measure to divest from companies with holdings over the Green Line was passed with 10 students voting for the resolution, four against and two abstaining.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/stanford-senate-passes-israel-divestment-measure/#ixzz3S5e4VJNC
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)I'm always happy to see BDS grow in popularity...especially in institutions of higher learning. That is the bellwether for the mood of a movement.
I hope that others in I/P don't knee-jerk the evil BDS anti this that poor Israel nazi hater BS.
But I can only hope.
King_David
(14,851 posts)Jewish fraternity at UC Davis defaced with swastikas
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-jewish-fraternity-davis-swastikas-20150201-story.html
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)It seems really strange that after winning the divestment vote SJP would do this, doesn't it? It could almost seem someone wanted to smear SJP for some reason
and there is this letter
King_David
(14,851 posts)BDS has been on a roll with incident after incident after incident after incident of antisemitism
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)so after winning the vote to divest SJP did this? still seems rather odd to me
King_David
(14,851 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 19, 2015, 09:24 AM - Edit history (1)
What's with these guys and Jews and supermarkets?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)Not Paris.
What's with kosher supermarkets that enrages antisemites so?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)9. Same dudes as the kosher supermarket ?
What's with these guys and Jews and supermarkets?
http://time.com/3661697/paris-terror-attack-kosher-grocery-jewish/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=95729
King_David
(14,851 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 19, 2015, 09:57 AM - Edit history (1)
Difficult to keep up...
Link removed.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)And A pigs head in the kosher supermarket and called for expulsion of all Jews from universities in Durban.
The list of BDS groups bigotry against Jews is huge.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)as if it implies the BDS movement not guilty of the worst kind of bigotry against Jews .. With antisemitic incident after antisemitic incident after antisemitic incident.