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Thursday, April 3, 2014

‘A Painful Price’: The escalating war on Palestine solidarity at U of Michigan and beyond

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/04/escalating-palestine-solidarity.html

‘A Painful Price’: The escalating war on Palestine solidarity at U of Michigan and beyond

on April 3, 2014
Following a week-long sit-in by the University of Michigan Students Allied For Equality (SAFE), an obstinate Central Student Government (CSG) council agreed to bring the group’s resolution on divesting from corporations involved in human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories to a vote. I appeared as SAFE’s guest speaker for the March 25 debate, addressing as many as 600 students packed into an auditorium while hundreds more waited outside. In an electric atmosphere, SAFE members and supporters rose to defend the resolution against a parade of pro-Israel students and professors rattling off well-worn talking points.

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