{"article":{"id":268111,"heading":"California Community Colleges Reject BDS","author":"PIBB","created":"2015-05-07 01:42:26","modified":"2015-05-09 06:08:13","last_modified":"Sat, 09 May 2015 13:08:13","article":"

The largest educational system in the United States -the California Community College System- has said no to BDS.

During their semi-annual meeting on May 3rd, the General Assembly of the Student Senate of California Community Colleges (GASSCCC) voted against divestment with a final vote of 25 in favor, 44 opposed, and six abstentions.

Over 2.1 million students are represented by the General Assembly of the Student Senate of California Community Colleges.

The California Community colleges join the University of Toledo, the University of Texas at Austin, University of Michigan, UC Santa Barbara, Princeton, Bowdoin and the University of New Mexico- all of whom have defeated anti-Israel resolutions in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/california-community-colleges-reject-bds.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Divestment from Israel is roundly defeated by the California Community College General Assembly","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/05\/268111.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":268112,"heading":"Bowdoin Crushed BDS","article":"Bowdoin College Student Government held an unprecedented all-student referendum, sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine, for a full academic and cultural boycott of Israel (not just \u201cdivestment\u201d from certain companies).\r\n\r\nBowdoin is one of the most elite Liberal Arts colleges, ranked 5th by U.S. News & World Report.\r\n\r\nThe referendum was held after SJP managed to get 20% of the student body to sign a Petition calling for a boycott. Our prior posts have the full background:\r\n\r\nIn order to pass, one-third of the 1915 students needed to participate in the vote, and two-thirds of those voting needed to vote in favor.\r\n\r\nThe results have just been officially released in an email from the student government president:\r\n\r\nDear Students,\r\n\r\nThe voting for the student referendum has now closed. The number of voters reached the necessary quorum of 1\/3 of the student body but only 14% voted in favor of the referendum, therefore it does not pass. The results are as follows:\r\n\r\nIn favor: 228 votes, 14%\r\n\r\nOpposed: 1,144 votes, 71%\r\n\r\nAbstaining: 247 votes, 15%\r\n\r\nTotal Votes: 1,619 votes, 85% of the student body\r\n\r\nThank you to everyone who voted.\r\n\r\nThis is a particularly crushing blow to the boycott movement, with 150 fewer students voting in favor than signed the Petition. This reflects that many students were pressured into signing the Petition and also were misled as to the nature of the boycott.\r\n\r\nThat 85% of student body participated reflects that the student body spontaneously rose up against this threat to academic freedom.","author":"Go polar bears!","parent_id":268111,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-05-07 02:09:08","modified":"2015-05-09 18:20:44","fileurl":""},{"id":268113,"heading":"BDS fail at Bowdoin","article":"Normally, these sorts of votes count on apathy and poor student engagement. But the student body was so outraged by the blatant anti-Semitism, bias and one-sided resolution that we had 85% turnout","author":"BDS fail at Bowdoin","parent_id":268111,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-05-07 03:14:45","modified":"2015-05-07 03:14:45","fileurl":""},{"id":268145,"heading":"Its not the 60's any more","article":"The tide is turning in California. I realized that when the block the boat protests at the Los Angeles docks failed to get more than a dozen protesters","author":"Franz Mccleary","parent_id":268111,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-05-09 06:08:13","modified":"2015-05-09 06:08:13","fileurl":""}]}