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Title: One Of The Most Jewish Colleges In The Country Just Voted For BDS By Nearly 2-1 Margin
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URL Source: https://forward.com/fast-forward/39 ... country-just-voted-for-bds-by/
Published: Apr 19, 2018
Author: Aiden Pink
Post Date: 2018-04-19 08:48:19 by Ada
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Views: 2643
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Students at Barnard College, the elite women’s school in New York City, voted this week to ask the university administration to divest from eight companies that do business in Israel. The referendum, which was written by students from Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine, listed ways that companies like Hyundai, Boeing and the Israeli national water carrier Mekorot allegedly violate international law, before asking whether the student government should encourage Barnard to divest from companies that “profit from or engage in the State of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.” The 64%-36% victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign came at what Hillel International describes as the most heavily Jewish school in the country that is not officially Jewish. There are approximately 850 Jewish students at Barnard out of a total undergraduate population of around 2,500. Some 1,153 participated in the vote. Jewish students at Barnard were highly troubled by the campaign, many of them told the Forward on Tuesday. Divided Barnard College Votes On Israel Divestment — On Eve Of Jewish State’s Independence Day April 18, 2018 By Aiden Pink Students are “exhausted,” Columbia/Barnard Hillel student president Talia Rubin told the Forward. “They don’t want to be bothered by this. They want to do their homework, they want to have a social life.” Students were especially angered after pro-Palestinian students staged a rally protesting Palestinian deaths in Gaza a few hundred feet from where a pro-Israel group was raising awareness of Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. No university has ever actually divested from Israel or Israeli companies in response to student pressure. But many students believe that Barnard could be an exception: The school was the first in the country to divest from companies that deny climate change science, in large part because of student pressure. Both opponents and supporters of the BDS movement believed that Barnard could be a bellwether. “These things do matter, they influence how people think on campus,” the president of the pro-Israel club Aryeh, Albert Mishaan, told the Forward on Tuesday. “These victories, however symbolic, become the next jumping-off point for further anti-Israel campaigns,” he added. “If Barnard, the most selective women’s college in the nation, divests, it will influence other schools,” SJP organizer Caroline Oliver agreed. Read more: forward.com/fast-forward/...ry-just-voted-for-bds-by/
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
What fantastic news -- thanks for it, at least 2 items worth! Students too tired for this, huh? They want to do their homework, they want to have a social life.” A sign of the times perhaps that she didn't dare say ANYTHING about the request itself like mebbe "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? THIS IS BARNARD, GDI! I feel violated by this VIOLENCE! The Evil Nazis are coming, you shleppim!!!" _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
I give up. What does BDS stand for? Last I recall was Bush Derangement Something.
I give up. What does BDS stand for? Let me read the tea leaves... Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions? Thanks hondope. That's so easy to remember. What does divestment mean? Is that where you double your money? I hope to do that at the racetrack tomorrow. Or is that where I divide it in half? Might be same old, same old for me.
Boycott Divestment Sanctions
FWIW 2/3 of millennials don't know what Auschwitz was and don't care.
#2. To: Ada (#0)
#3. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
The 64%-36% victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign
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#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
#5. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
I give up. What does BDS stand for?
#6. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
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