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These are three incredibly powerful reasons to oppose divestment. Yet sure enough, Chomsky signed the petition. Why? Roughly, the petition demands that Israel evacuate military forces from the territories, end legal torture, cease building and begin dismantling settlements and allow the right of return or compensation for refugees. To apply pressure on Israel, the petition calls for three things: that the U.S. government make military aid conditional on the above, that Harvard and MIT divest from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel and that Harvard and MIT divest from Israel...
Chomsky supports the first two tactics of the petition but strongly opposes the third. Chomsky had input on the creation of the petition and stated that the words “divest from Israel” were included “over [his] objections...
...response to another question, Pipes said he believed the campaign calling for universities, including Harvard, to divest from Israel was losing steam...
Dershowitz predicted that no university would actually divest from Israel, and said he would resign his position if Harvard...
Junior Noam Waldoks, co-president of Yale Students Against Divestment, said he is confident Yale will not divest...