(The College Fix) Diamond Braxton - University of Oregon students WHO want to eat certain brands of hummus won't find them at any event connected to their student government. Last week, the Associated Students of the University of Oregon Senate voted two-thirds in favor of an anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions resolution, in a meeting attended by more than 200 students. The resolution bars the student government from buying products made by companies that are "complicit in Israeli settler colonialism and the Israeli occupation of Palestine," including hummus makers Sabra and Tribe, home carbonation maker Sodastream, and heavy equipment maker Caterpillar. It says the university "has historically been a proponent in funding the business of state-sanctioned violence," and asks it to divest from companies including General Electric and water cooler maker Eden Springs.
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