Submission: Anti-divestment groups resort to personal attacks in lieu of logical argument

The Daily Bruin ran two op-eds Friday in the run-up to the landmark University of California Student Association vote in favor of divesting UC funds from companies enabling Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. One op-ed made a clear, reasoned case for why the UCSA should support this initiative. The other was an attack on […]

Submission: UCLA must follow UCSC’s example, decide to divest

The movement to stop the University of California system from investing in corporations that violate Palestinian human rights reached an important milestone on May 28. After hours of public comment and senate deliberation, the student government at the UC Santa Cruz voted by a 22-14 margin to endorse divestment. Five of the nine undergraduate UC […]