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Israel Divestment Petitions, Press Conference–You can help!
Greetings: The campaign to divest from Israel has begun! Please join us in changing California’s law by helping us circulate a petition measure that would require the state’s two largest pension funds, PERS and STRS, to divest from companies that contribute to the construction of Israeli settlements or provide military equipment to Israel. If you […]
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Divestment: from the campus to the streets
Mohammad Talaat, The Electronic Intifada, 8 September 2010 Following a sharp increase in divestment efforts across North American college campuses last spring, this academic year promises an even greater number of initiatives. The success and near-success of efforts at several campuses last year, coupled with Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla this summer, has […]
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MSCI Forces Israel Sale Harvard Campaign Failed to Bring About
By Sree Bhaktavatsalam, Christopher Condon and Gillian Wee – Sep 2, 2010 7:00 AM MSCI Inc. may have been more instrumental in changing investor behavior toward Israel than an eight-year-old divestment campaign by some Harvard and MIT academics. The index provider”s decision to move the country to a developed nations index prompted Harvard University, T. […]
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Israeli academics boycott West Bank settlements
31 August 2010 Last updated at 13:51 GMT New cultural centre in Ariel (30 August 2010) An arts centre in Ariel, one of the West Bank’s largest settlements, is to open in November More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In a […]
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The BDS Movement: Now with Plasma TV’s.
August 24 2010 by Jesse Bacon Sue Fisckoff writes in the JTA about the off season preparations of Team Israel, aka Hillel, the Jewish student organization. The article highlights the very real panic the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement has caused and its automatic equation with anti-Semitism in the minds of some. Amanda Boris is nervous […]
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An Assault on Israeli Academic Freedom–and Liberal Values
August 26, 2010 By Neve Gordon On May 31, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid toward Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched toward the social-sciences building, Israeli […]
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Harvard University divests from Israel
Monday August 16, 2010 by IMEMC Staff Report In the latest declared victory for the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement worldwide, Harvard University, one of the most prestigious and oldest universities in the United States, has sold off all of its shares in Israeli companies. Although the university did not list a reason for the sale, student activists […]
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Harvard Divests From Israel
By Fayyad Harvard Management Company, which manages the university”s endowment, has divested the fund from all investments it had in Israel companies, during the second quarter of this year. The divested stocks include TEVA, a generic drug manufacturer, that has greatly benefited from Israel”s strangulation of several Palestinian pharmaceutical companies, Checkpoint Securities, which provided many […]
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Harvard University fund sells all Israel holdings
No reason for the sale was mentioned in the report to the SEC. 15 August 10 17:15, Hillel Koren In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. […]
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TAKE ACTION: Sign Petition to Cancel Study Abroad in Israel
The Education Abroad Program (EAP) Equality Coalition, a group of concerned faculty and students at UC Davis, is today presenting a letter endorsed by 389 signatories to Vice Provost William Lacy requesting that the university discontinue its Summer Program in Israel, opened this year. The letter contains both individual signatures and endorsements from organizations such […]
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