Immediately after Hampshire College announced they had divested from the Israeli occupation, there was another story that Professor Alan Dershowitz had made threatening phone calls to students who had worked to pass the divestment. This seemed like an odd story…
The movement for divestment at Hampshire college has been led by the local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. I emailed Brian Van Slyke (right), a SJP member, to learn more about the campaign, what lessons have been learned…
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…
It is important to register the fact that when Dershowitz cried out against the Hampshire College divestment resolution, he did so by calling on donors to withdraw contributions from Hampshire. This is an old story. When Walt and Mearsheimer published…
Yesterday the Hampshire College administration was trying to distance itself from the monumental action the school’s Board of Trustees took in divesting from the Israeli occupation. Today Hampshire students have responded. From the SJP statement: Divestment from Apartheid South Africa…
Yesterday the story leaked that Alan Dershowitz was calling members of Hampshire Students for Justice in Palestine and threatening to organize an international boycott of the school following its decision to divest from the Israeli occupation. Dershowitz has clarified his…
From the Hampshire SJP blog: This is a monumental and historic step in the struggle for Palestinian equality, self-determination and peace in the Holy Land by non violent means. I see what these students have accomplished as a replica of…
Notice the namecalling and sophomoric goofiness in this post: Palestine is an addiction for Europe. Manchester University has once again announced a boycott of Israel. Very important university. Oy vey: in continuous decline since Chaim Weizman (later first president of…