{"id":53461,"date":"2015-02-09T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=53461"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:08","slug":"university-of-california-approves-boycotting-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/02\/university-of-california-approves-boycotting-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"University of California Approves Boycotting Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 Feb 2015 &#8211; <em>Pro-Palestinian students at the University of California, Davis, have celebrated after a student government vote to boycott Israel was passed overwhelmingly at the US school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The student government resolution to boycott Israel passed 8-2 last week, which formally recommends the university to divest from US companies that conduct business with Israel, the Washington Times reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the vote, which was championed by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), student activists waved Palestinian flags and celebrated as they left the meeting room.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution is part of a larger movement, known as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, to increase economic and political pressure on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The BDS movement also seeks to end the Israeli occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands and respect the right of return of Palestinian refugees.<\/p>\n<p>The boycott campaign against Israel began in July 2005 by 171 Palestinian organizations, which calls for &#8220;various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, two US academic groups &#8212; the American Studies Association and the Association for Asian American Studies &#8212; supported the boycott.<\/p>\n<p>During the recent Israel war against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes targeted a number of schools and hospitals in defiance of the Geneva conventions that ban such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,100 Palestinians, over 500 of them children, lost their lives during the Israeli offensive.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/02\/04\/396096\/US-university-approves-boycotting-Israel\" >Go to Original \u2013 presstv.ir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Feb 2015 &#8211; Pro-Palestinian students at the University of California, Davis, have celebrated after a student government vote to boycott Israel was passed overwhelmingly at the US school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}