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...invested in companies that have interests in Israel.) Some of the divestment activists come from the anti-globalism movement or from campus groups for Muslim students. A few of the groups, like those at the University of Michigan and U.C. Berkeley, take pains to point out that they have Jewish students among their supporters...
...didn't complicate the fight against apartheid: At what point does opposition to Israeli policy slide into the mud fields of old-fashioned anti-Semitism? At U.C. Berkeley on the first night of Passover, someone threw a cinder block through the glass door of the campus Hillel center for Jewish students and spray painted the words F--- JEWS on the wall. Around the same time, Jewish students were assaulted on their way to or from campus. Though there's no evidence to suggest a link, the divestment campaign turned into an ugly scuffle two weeks later when 79 protestors (half...
Nevertheless, their friends felt compelled to choose between them. Gloria, who had instigated the divorce because she realized she was gay, kept her old friends, like Anita, but nearly all the Orthodox Jewish couple's married friends sided with her husband. Peter, who told his ex-wife that of the friends he lost in the split, he missed Anita most, did not return Anita's calls...
...meeting was part of a nationwide push by the Tikkun Community—a politically liberal organization with Jewish roots that advocates peace and spirituality—to build activism on college campuses...
...part, the group’s plan calls for an end to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, giving the Jewish parts of Jerusalem to Israel and the Palestinian parts to Palestine and international guarantees of security for a stable new Palestinian state and for Israel...