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4:30 AM Rally After UC Berkeley Senate Upholds Veto
After the UC Berkeley Senate voted 16-4 to divest from companies complicit in war crimes committed by Israel during operation Cast Lead (General Electric and United Technologies) the bill was vetoed by President Will Smelko. After two nights of lengthy debate and incredible external pressure the veto was upheld, but the attention the bill attracted […]
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Statement from UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine
DESPITE the regrettable decision made by the ASUC Senate tonight, we have never been more confident about our success or more optimistic about the future. Our first act after this vote, therefore, is to invite our peers, who today are paralyzed by their fear, to open their eyes and hearts to the grave injustices in […]
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Academic freedom in Israel and Palestine
Steven Rose, professor of biology and neurobiology at the Open University, UK. EMBO reports 10:1184 (2009) doi:10.1038/embor.2009.229 Many readers of this journal will, like me, have Israeli colleagues whose research we respect, with whom we have collaborated, and among whom we have friends. Yet, these relationships have been overshadowed by the human rights abuses inflicted […]
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With Roundabout Politics in Play, No One Leaves Happy
After six hours of back-and-forth emotion on a controversial resolution to acknowledge Israeli war crimes, the A.S. Council did nothing but waste an opportunity to promote awareness. Posted on 29 April 2010 By Editorial Board As much as we rag on our student leaders for wasting valuable floor time making empty statements – aka resolutions, […]
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UC Berkeley Student Senate Fails to Override Veto of Israel Divestment Measure
The student senate at the University of California–Berkeley has failed to override a veto of a bill calling on campus officials to divest from companies that supply weapons the Israel uses in its occupation of the Palestinian territories. AMY GOODMAN: As we wrap-up now with student activism. The student senate at the University of California-Berkeley […]
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Council Delays Decision On Human Rights Violations – UCSD Guardian
After emotional public input and a complete rewrite of the divestment resolution, proponents plan to reintroduce original language next week. Posted on 29 April 2010 by Angela Chen John Hanacek/Guardian Hundreds of students gathered at the A.S. Forum last night to watch the council debate a controversial resolution calling for the University of California to […]
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UC Berkeley Divestment on Flashpoints
Ali Abunimah and university student organizers talk about last night”s vote at UC Berkeley to uphold the veto on divestment, we”ll discuss the technical defeat but the moral victory of the vote and the growing boycott, divestment and sanctions movement across the country and across the world. LISTEN ONLINE: Download this clip Play this clip […]
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Divest – for Israel’s sake
By Matthew A. Taylor What on earth will it take to persuade Israel to leave the occupied territories? Sometimes it seems as if nothing will work. For eight years now, the Arab Peace Initiative, which early Zionist leaders would have seen as a dream-come-true, has been collecting dust. Its terms include two states based on […]
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Caterpillar equipment used in extrajudicial killing near Hebron
Press release, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 29 April 2010 The following press release was issued by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights on 26 April 2010: On Monday 26 April 2010, Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian man, Ali Ismael Ali Swaiti, 45, in Beit Awwa in the West Bank district of Hebron, after […]
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UC Berkeley Students Argue in Favor of Divesment from War Crimes
After the UC Berkeley Senate voted 16-4 to divest from companies complicit in war crimes committed by Israel during operation Cast Lead (General Electric and United Technologies) the bill was vetoed by President Will Smelko. After two nights of lengthy debate and incredible external pressure the veto was upheld, but the attention the bill attracted […]
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