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London School of Economics students vote to divest from Israel
by Saed Bannoura
IMEMC News
February 16, 2008
http://www.imemc.


Joining a growing list of high-profile institutions, unions and
citizen`s groups that have chosen to divest from Israel, the Student
Union at the prestigious London School of Economics voted
overwhelmingly on Thursday to demand that the University divest.

Divestment is a non-violent strategy that was utilized worldwide during
the anti-apartheid campaigns against the white South African apartheid
regime during the 1980s. In recent years, peace activists and human
rights advocates worldwide have used the same technique to challenge
what has been called Israel`s apartheid system against the
Palestinians.

The Student Union called on a divestment from any companies that
provide military and commercial support for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, and condemned the decades of human rights abuses carried out against the Palestinian people by the Israeli occupying authorities, according to student leaders.

The motion was brought to the Union`s weekly meeting of 400 students
by the London School of Economics` Palestine Society. The Union
resolved to lobby both their own University`s Administration and the
National Union of Students in the United Kingdom to commit to similar
divestment measures.

The Union voted by a six to one measure to support the aim of targeted
divestment until the companies in question pull out of Israel, or until
Israel ends its systematic human rights abuses and illegal occupation
of Palestinian land.


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