Hampshire students continue to challenge their administration's attempt to backtrack on their decision to divest from the Israeli occupation. As part of this effort they have set up a web page called "Voices of Hampshire, Voices of Divestment". Notice the specific excitement in this video of young Jews who are thrilled to be in the vanguard of a progressive movement. That is the greatest threat that the lobby here faces, that cultural shift.
There are other videos posted on the site as well. From the page's introduction:
They claim that this move to divest has nothing to do with the Occupation of Palestine, and perhaps for them, it does not.
However, for the more than 800 students, staff, faculty, alumni and parents who have signed SJP’s call for divestment, it has everything to do with our collective desire to see the end of the Occupation and the restoration of justice to the Palestinian people.
For those of us at the heart and forefront of this movement, we have divested specifically because of Israel’s human rights violations and war crimes. This is our movement, this is our divestment.
