Pomona College. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) condemned a BDS bill passed by Pomona College’s student government that seeks to defund student clubs that do not endorse the boycott which could put campus organizations such as Hillel and Chabad at risk if they fail to divest from a United Nations Human Rights Council-drafted blacklist of major Israeli and American businesses.
“We urge Pomona’s student government to reject calls to mandate support of a boycott,” FIRE’s letter stated, arguing that the student government’s restrictions on its own internal spending would pass muster for the group.
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