Stanford (student) senate passes Israel divestment measure

[azurnoir]

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 Egypt’s 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]

1. Recommend...interesting for Stanford. n/t

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. Great news.

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]

3. Lets hope the BDS groupies do not have the same reaction they did at UC Davis

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]

4. Tell us have any arrests been made for this malicious act?

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

"We reject any attempts to blame this on any single student community, including the UC Davis Divestment movement," a joint letter from a long list of organizations, including the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, stated. It condemned the graffiti as a hate crime.

[King_David]

5. Not strange at all

BDS has been on a roll with incident after incident after incident after incident of antisemitism

[azurnoir]

6. no arrests I take it?

so after winning the vote to divest SJP did this? still seems rather odd to me

[King_David]

9. Same dudes as the kosher supermarket ?

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What's with these guys and Jews and supermarkets?

[azurnoir]

11. so now SJP is responsible for the murders at Hyper Cacher market in Paris?

[King_David]

12. BDS groupies left severed pigs head in a kosher supermarket

Not Paris.

What's with kosher supermarkets that enrages antisemites so?

[azurnoir]

13. South Africa that did happen however in the comment I replied to your link went to the Paris attack

Star Member King_David (10,979 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. Was mistake, there's been so many BDS incidents of antisemitism that it's

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Difficult to keep up...

Link removed.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. So no arrests? Just a lot of hot air and misinformation?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. Did BDSers do that, dave, or are you BSing?

[King_David]

10. Same group that targeted a Jewish Dorm in NYC

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]

15. Any arrests, dave?

[King_David]

16. Not quite sure the relevance of that question that you keep asking

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.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

17. The relevance is "proof", dave.