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Cambridge, Mass., rejects BDS resolution after contentious council meeting

Cambridge, Mass., rejects BDS resolution after contentious council meeting

(JNS) The city council of Cambridge, Mass., rejected a resolution supporting the BDS movement.
The resolution, Policy Order #109, was voted down after nearly seven-and-a-half hours of public testimony by more than 300 people late Tuesday.
The proposed resolution sought to direct the city manager to “review corporate contracts and identify any companies that are in violation of Cambridge’s policy on discrimination, including (but not limited to) Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hewlett Packard Incorporated over their role in abetting apartheid in the Middle East.”
Cambridge, however,.
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Cornel West Again Blames Israel Views for Harvard Tenure Denial, as Jewish Student Leaders Call Petition 'Absurd' and 'Harmful'

Widener Library at Harvard University. Photo: Joseph Williams.
Student representatives of Jewish and pro-Israel groups at Harvard University said they were “deeply hurt” by a petition drive in support of outspoken academic Cornel West, who in a recent interview reiterated claims that the university’s tenure rejection was based on his criticism of Israel.
“The University has granted tenure both to professors who have denounced the Jewish State and to those who have staunchly defended it. To suggest that, after all these years, the University would suddenly, inexplicably reverse course is not just far-fetched, it’s flat-out absurd,” said Sam Meyerson, VP of Community Relations at Harvard Hillel, and Sarah Bolnick, co-president of the group Harvard Israel Initiative, in a joint statement to ....

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