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Talks Fail to Bring About Compromise – UCSD Guardian
By Angela Chen The A.S. Campus Affairs Committee voted 7-8 last night to indefinitely table a controversial resolution calling for the UC system to divest from General Electric and United Technologies – companies the document claims are profiting from alleged Israeli human-rights violations in the Palestinian territories. Because the resolution was tabled during the committee […]
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UCSD Israel divestment measure tabled
Washington – Student Senators at the University of California, San Diego indefinitely tabled a measure to divest funds from two US companies profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, activists said. This came at a meeting on Wednesday night, a second attempt to pass a divestment measure after senators failed to agree on the language […]
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Anti-Israel divestment motion coming to University of California, Riverside
May 5, 12:45 PMLA Middle Eastern Policy Examiner Paul Kujawsky The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is an international, multi-faceted effort to delegitimize Israel. Despite the occasional disingenuous disclaimer, and although cloaked in the language of human rights and peace, the BDSers deny the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, and […]
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Israel’s Consul General Admits “Occupation” in his ASUC Senate Testimony – April 14, 2010
@ 40 sec: “We seek to end the occupation; that is our position as a government,” while pounding on the lectern @ 1:05 sec: “We want to end the occupation; this is the position of the government of Israel”
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A “˜historic opportunity at hand’ tonight as UC San Diego votes on divestment
by Adam Horowitz on May 5, 2010 Anfal Awwad, Benjamin Balthaser, Oliver Burchill, Amal Dalmar and Aaron Dimsdale write in the UCSD newspaper The Guardian about the UCSD divestment resolution that will be voted on tonight: We have a historic opportunity to stop our university from contributing to the violation of human rights. This is […]
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Final UCSD Divestment Vote Wednesday, 5 May
The final vote on divestment will be Wednesday, 5 May at the AS Council meeting. When: Wednesday, 5 May at 6pm Where: UCSD Price Center Ballroom East Address: 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92192 Directions to Parking & UCSD Map to Price Center
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Endorsements for UCSD Divestment
UCSD Student Organizations: Amnesty International Arab Student Union Black Student Union College Democrats Food Co-Op Forward Haiti Emergence Action Team Muslim Student Association One Earth One Justice Schools for Schools Student Sustainability Collective Students Take Action Now Darfur Students for Barack Obama Students for Civil Rights in Iran Students for Justice in Palestine UCSD Faculty […]
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MIT student introduces internet boycott platform
An MIT grad student has introduced a new internet platform he hopes will help activists deepen and expand their campaigns to boycott products made in Israeli settlements. The website, Boycott Toolkit, is a resource where users can generate lists of specific products and companies targeted for boycotts. Right now the site lists a raft of […]
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At Berkeley, moral victory despite divestment vote loss
Dina Omar, The Electronic Intifada, 3 May 2010 On 28 April, University of California, Berkeley’s Student Senate narrowly missed an historic opportunity to divest its funds from United Technologies and General Electric which manufacture F-16 jets and Apache helicopters — weapons sold to the Israeli military and used against civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. […]
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Historic Opportunity at Hand
By Anfal Awwadh, Benjamin Balthaser, Oliver Burchill, Amar Dalmar and Aaron Dimsdale Task Force, A.S. Divestment Resolution2009 We have a historic opportunity to stop our university from contributing to the violation of human rights. This is a controversial issue, as all movements for social justice are. But let us be clear: The controversy surrounding the […]
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