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As more evidence that maligning and seeking to weaken and destroy Israel is still common behavior on American college campuses, the student government of Pomona College successfully pushed through a resolution that would compel student clubs to participate in a boycott of targeted companies doing business with Israel. Claremont Colleges Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Claremont Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) sponsored the odious bill and the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) passed the resolution aimed at “divesting all ASPC funds from companies complicit in the occupation of Palestine, and banning future use of funds towards such companies.”
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The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon closed its virtual one hundred and third session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the report of Belgium, and a statement on the rise of racial discrimination against Asians and people of Asian descent, in particular racist hate crimes and hate speech.
Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, Committee Rapporteur, summing up the activities of the Committee during the session, said the Committee had undertaken its first online country review and thanked Belgium for agreeing to this virtual examination of their twentieth to twenty-second combined periodic report. The concluding observations and recommendations were available here (in French only).
With elections postponed, Middle East coordinator urges parties to show restraint
JERUSALEM, Saturday, May 1, 2021 (WAFA) – Following President Mahmoud Abbas decision to postpone the elections due to Israel s refusal to allow voting for Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Tor Wennesland urged all parties to maintain calm, show restraint and refrain from violence.
The Palestinian leadership is insisting that all Palestinian citizens of the city who are eligible to vote be allowed to cast their ballots inside the city, which the Palestinians seek as capital of their future independent state.
Wennseland also called upon leaders on all sides to take steps to reduce tensions, and create the conditions for a resumption of the electoral process.
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UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said that he understood the “disappointment of the many Palestinians” who had gone nearly 16 years without being able to cast their vote.