Editor’s note: Because of the offensive nature of discussion around this article, commenting has been closed. Lines of students stretched the length of Ackerman Grand Ballroom Tuesday night as an impassioned discussion unfolded about a controversial undergraduate student government divestment resolution. More than 500 students attended the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting to support or criticize […]
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WATCH LIVE: USAC discusses divestment resolution
Editor’s note: Because of the offensive nature of discussion around these videos, commenting has been closed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc8m3vqUjDg Watch Tuesday night’s USAC meeting, where the council will discuss a proposed resolution that asks the University of California to divest from specific companies that the resolution claims are complicit in the human rights abuses of Palestinians. Read more about […]
Students mobilize in response to divestment resolution
Students are mobilizing for and against a resolution that calls for divestment from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. The Undergraduate Students Association Council is set to vote Tuesday on the resolution, which asks for the University of California to divest from specific companies that the resolution claims are complicit […]
Submission: Divestment promotes anti-Israeli movement
BY AVINOAM BARAL, TAMMY RUBIN AND MIRIAM ESHAGHIAN At 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Undergraduate Students Association Council will be debating a resolution calling for divestment from five companies that have contracts with the Israeli government. We find this resolution misleading and offensive, and urge all of our fellow students to join us in opposition to it. […]
Submission: BDS movement detracts from two-state solution
BY DOR CARPEL AND GIL BAR-OR Coming from Israeli backgrounds, we’ve both had the struggle of supporting our homeland while at the same time fighting to end the continued occupation of the West Bank. With grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins who live in Israel, our concern for the future of the country and each of its residents […]
Maia Ferdman: USAC vote on resolution would be counterproductive
The Undergraduate Students Association Council this week chose to move its meeting to Ackerman Grand Ballroom, foreshadowing the robust response it expects to one particular agenda item – a resolution to divest from companies that profit off the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. On the one hand, the resolution’s moral basis – that UCLA […]
Submission: Resolution supports divestment, not BDS as a whole
Since the beginning of this school year, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA has been working tirelessly to raise campus awareness about the need for divestment (withdrawing our university’s investments) from companies that profit off the occupation of Palestine, and about the urgency of this issue to our entire campus community. Our University’s investments make us all individually complicit […]