California student government passes resolution to divest from companies active in Israel
California student government passes resolution to divest from companies active in Israel
Responding to the bill, Pomona College management released a letter expressing “deep concern” that the “vote was held without representation from any student opposition.”
Carnegie Hall at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Credit: Pomona College.
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(April 25, 2021 / JNS) The Associated Students of Pomona College in California (ASPC) “unanimously passed” a resolution calling for the divestment of its funds from companies “complicit in the occupation of Palestine,” the Claremont Students for Justice in Palestine announced on Instagram on Thursday.
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Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr denounced the ASPC for holding the vote âwithout representation from any student oppositionâ and urged the ASPC to revisit the matter to ensure that all viewpoints are heard.
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Mason Hall and the Academic Quadrangle, Pomona College. Photo by Nostalgicwisdom under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The Pomona College student government unanimously passed a pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution on April 22. The Claremont Independent reported that the resolution, which was authored by Claremont Colleges Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Claremont Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), called on the As