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A heated debate over divestment from Israel intensified yesterday at Yale as a student group launched a petition denouncing the divestment campaign.
The petition, sponsored by the Yale Friends of Israel, claims that divestment would undermine Israel’s economy and fail to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Posted yesterday at www.yaledontdivest.org, it responds to demands made last week by a group of students, faculty and alumni that the school...
Yale’s pro-divestment petition, pushed by the Yale Divest From Israel Campaign, alleges violations of the university’s own ethical investment policy—a policy stricter than that at Harvard and other rival universities. The campaign will pursue legal action if the administration ignores...
“You can’t single out one country,” said Dershowitz, who is involved in Harvard’s anti-divestment petition, which has drawn nearly 6,000 signatures. “If you were to go through all of Yale’s...
Parent Andy Hammond, who circulated a petition that called for inspection of the proceedings of the school committee by an outside body, pointedly accused D’Alessandro of bungling the merger process.