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November 5, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1036265050018

Columbia U. Latest Israeli Divestment Battleground

(Jerusalem Post) - Taking their cue from colleagues at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton, hundreds of students, professors, and alumni have signed a petition urging Columbia University to divest university funds from companies that manufacture and sell arms to Israel. Like the other petitions, the call to divest appears to be overshadowed by a far more popular anti-divestment campaign. Organized by the director of Columbia's Hillel, Rabbi Charles Sheer, within the first 24 hours of its posting at www.columbiadontdivest.org, 664 students, faculty, alumni, and staff signed the petition, compared to 394 who signed on to divest from Israel over the past week at www.columbiadivest.org.

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