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[The Harvard Crimson :: News] The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Dershowitz Defends Investments in ...: Hampshire administrators decided earlier this month to withdraw investments from a State Street mutual fund with holdings in six companies contracting with the Israeli military, after a college student group, Students for Justice in Palestine, petitioned the school to divest because of the companies’ ties to what students called “Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.”

[KABOBfest] KABOBfest: Hampshire College divests from Israeli occupation: Since every American president has failed to end the United States' addiction to Israeli violence, and since every Israeli Prime Minister in history has proved utterly unwilling to recognize the equal rights of Palestinians, it is up to us as ordinary people and activists in the United States to apply the only power we have to ending the occupation: economic power.

The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice: Electronic Intifada reported that “meeting minutes from a committee of Hampshire’s Board of Trustees confirm that ‘President Hexter acknowledged that it was the good work of SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) that brought this issue to the attention of the committee.’ This groundbreaking decision follows in Hampshire’s history of being the first college in the country to divest from apartheid South Africa 32 years ago, a decision based on similar human rights concerns.

[The Indypendent] The Indypendent » Hampshire College Becomes First U.S. University ...: It’s interesting to notice that no matter how many times it’s pointed out that the administration of Hampshire College has vigorously denied that this decision has anything to do with Israel, that divestment supporters continue to simply ignore this clearly verifiable truth and blithely congratulate the university for doing something it has stated in no uncertain terms that it did NOT do.

[Mondoweiss] Mondoweiss: What YOU can do to support courageous Hampshire ...: Toward that end, to follow SJP's historic announcement of divestment, a letter I quickly wrote to the school and will morph into letters to the editor as needed, and a letter written to members of the Hampshire Community by school reps so you can glean the specifics of their back peddling.

[The Presidential Blog] The Presidential Blog » Blog Archive » A Call for Nonviolence and ...: Howard Zinn, the famous historian, writer, activist, and professor wrote, in reference to statements like President Hexter’s of so called “balance” and “support for all,” “you can’t be neutral on a moving train.” I repeat, President Hexter, the blood is already on our hands, and without taking a stand, making a real statement, and at the very least, divesting immediately, your statements of neutrality are tantamount to support for slaughter. Let there be no mistake - Hampshire College has already made its stance clear: profit and the support of a minority group of wealthy trustees and donors is more important than stopping our funding of war machines.

[Z-Word Blog] Did Hampshire College Divest from Israel? at Z-Word Blog: Equally, the fact that 200 companies were found to be in violation of the college’s investment guidelines - SJP identified only six, because their sole concern is divestment from Israel - bolsters the case of Hampshire’s Board of Trustees that “the decision expressly did not pertain to a political movement or single out businesses active in a specific region or country.”

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