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California community college first to pass Israel divestment resolution
A community college in Cupertino, California, has become the first educational institution of its kind in the US to support a resolution in favor of divestment from companies that profit from Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights.
The resolution, which the student senate passed on 15 March, urges the De Anza College’s board of directors to pull the college’s investments from three US-based corporations that enable Israel’s rights violations – Hewlett-Packard, Motorola Solutions and Caterpillar – as well as from G4S, the largest private security firm in the world.
G4S has provided equipment and services to Israeli military checkpoints and inside prisons where Palestinians have been tortured.
Due to mounting international boycott pressure, G4S announced last December that it was exiting most of its businesses with Israel, but remains co-owner of a police training center.
The resolution also calls on the community college to implement a socially responsible investment policy.
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' A socially responsible investment policy. ' That's not too much to ask. Surely, support for neoZionist fascism is not yet compulsory.
Anyway- these companies are simply motivated by the money. When folks continue divesting from THEM then they'll quit Israel.
