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UC Berkeley student senate passes divestment bill

The student senate at the University of California at Berkeley voted in favor of a bill calling on the UC administration to divest from companies which profit from Israel’s occupation.

College officials reject claims of anti-Semitism at Brooklyn College boycott event

Public figures accused Students for Justice in Palestine at Brooklyn College of discrimination and anti-Semitism following an event with Omar Barghouti and Judith Butler.

BDS Roundup: University of Sydney student council passes academic boycott resolution

University of Sydney’s student representative council passes academic boycott resolution to cut ties with Israel’s Technion, citing complicity in violations against Palestinian rights.

Podcast: Linah Alsaafin on Maysara Abuhamdia, the latest victim of Israel’s medical neglect of prisoners

Linah Alsaafin discusses the recent imprisonment, medical neglect and death of Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abuhamdia.

Rights groups "express alarm" after Israeli professor in US calls Palestinian student a "cockroach"

Rights groups express concerns about a recent incident in which an Israeli professor called a Palestinian student “a cockroach” at a Southern California college.

Student senate at UC Riverside votes to overturn divestment resolution after Zionist pressure

Students will have to start from scratch to re-introduce a divestment resolution.

Roger Waters, Desmond Tutu urge student senators at UC Riverside not to back down on divestment vote

“Do not stand silent. Do not retreat. Do not back down. Stand firm in your principles and reject apartheid wherever it is practiced,” says Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Zionist groups pressuring student government to overturn UC Riverside divestment vote, senator says

A student senator urges her colleagues to “have courage to stand up for what they voted for.”

Podcast: Maath Musleh on Israel's plans to sever Jerusalem villages from one other

Maath Musleh on Israel’s house demolition, eviction and land confiscation policies in occupied East Jerusalem. Also, Rami Almeghari files a report from Gaza.

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