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Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC), voted unanimously Thursday to pass a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution that calls for the student union to stop funding student clubs engaging with companies that “support the Israeli occupation of Palestine or contributes to any companies” on a United Nations list that includes major Israeli and American companies.
According to the Claremont Independent, “Student clubs that fail to divest from the listed companies will face the loss of ASPC funding.” The bill’s stated end goal is to force student clubs to enact the boycott as well, and it draws on a UN list, drafted by the UN Human Rights Council, that includes most major Israeli companies as well as American companies such as Trip Advisor, Airbnb, Expedia, Delta, and Booking.com. It puts Jewish organizations at Pomona such as Hillel and Chabad at risk of losing funding from Pomona College’s student government.
The bill, which was submitted by Claremont Colleges Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Claremont Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) last week, was lauded by SJP on Instagram, as an “historic BDS victory.” The group thanked members of ASPC for “standing up against our colleges’ complicity in supporting companies and organizations that serve to benefit from continued violence on behalf of the state of Israel,” and promised to pressure the other Claremont Colleges Student Government associations to follow suit.
The goal of the resolution, according to the student government resolution that SJP submitted, is “a Consortium-wide agreement to ban clubs from using student government allocations to invest in or purchase goods from companies that contribute to … the Israeli state.”
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