Divestment campaigns on University of California campuses continue to grow.

Israeli forces use Caterpillar bulldozers to demolish Palestinian homes and structures.

 (Mahfouz Abu Turk/ APA images)

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Last night, the student senate at the University of California at Riverside voted to support a resolution sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine calling on the university to pull its investments from US companies profiting from Israel’s occupation.

Just before midnight Wednesday, student senators voted to uphold the resolution by a narrow margin — eight in favor, seven against — during an even

Update: The UC Berkeley student president has announced that he will not veto the motion.

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

In a meeting that lasted nearly ten hours, http://www.dailycal.org/2013/04/18/asuc-senate-passes-divestmen

January:

• Noted French philosopher and political theorist Jacques Rancière canceled a visit to lecture at Tel Aviv University after an appeal by PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
• Leading LGBT activists, artists and cultural workers http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora/leading-lgbt-activists-artists-...