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Yale University alumni, faculty and students launched a petition on Tuesday demanding the University immediately divest from corporations that conduct business in Israel...
...Campus War Over Israel" [SOCIETY, Oct. 7] addressed the issue of whether it is anti-Semitic for students to seek to have their colleges divest their investment portfolios of firms doing business with Israel. Of course, selling stock and boycotting a company are legitimate mechanisms for affecting policy. Perhaps they are also appropriate techniques for affecting national policy. One is struck, however, by the singling out of Israel--the sole democracy in the Middle East--for such treatment, to the exclusion of countries like Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia, which are not exactly bastions of civil rights. When selective economic...
Although co-chair and co-founder Erol N. Gulay ’05 initially said that the group would “encourage Harvard to divest its investments from Israel,” the meeting attendees were divided on the issue...
Five supporters of the Harvard-MIT petition to divest from Israel cited personal experience and historical precedent as they argued their position in front of a predominately pro-Israel audience at a Harvard Law School panel yesterday...
Some members of the Harvard community, including Harvard Students for Israel (HSI), have opposed the divestment petition. University President Lawrence H. Summers has said that Harvard will not divest from Israel. In a speech last month, Summers said that supporters of ideas including divestment are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent” in a speech last month...