Update on final tally of votes as well as anti-Israel sentiment in a concurrent resolution, via Breitbart:
…The first resolution called for divestment from certain American companies that do business in Israel. The second resolution called for divestment from American, Mexican, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Brazilian, Sri Lankan, and Egyptian government bonds.
So UC Student Association just called for divestment from America. As an alum I’m very sad to see student political power wasted #UCSADivest — Max Samarov (@MaxSamarov) February 8, 2015
The student-backed board passed both divestment resolutions with an initial vote of 11 “yes” vote, 1 “no” vote, and 3 “abstentions” before a revote determined the final tally to be 9-1-6. The vote was held at UCLA’s Tom Bradley Hall. The vote comes just days after UC Davis passed a similar resolution.
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At the end of the vote, pro-divestment students and activists lauded each other by saying “mabrouk” which is congratulations in Arabic..
Gateway Pundit has this horrible news out of the U.C. system.
The University of California student government approved legislation that calls on the university leaders to divest from America. The College Fix reported:
The University of California Student Association board – which represents all 233,000 students enrolled in the UC system’s 10 campuses – approved a resolution on Sunday that calls on the system’s leaders to financially divest from the United States.
The measure cited alleged human rights violations by America such as drone strikes that have killed civilians, and claimed the country’s criminal justice system is racist, among other accusations.
The “Resolution Toward Socially Responsible Investment at the University of California” passed with an overwhelming majority vote of 11-1-3.
“The government of the United States of America is engaged in drone strikes that have killed over 2,400 people in Pakistan and Yemen, many of them civilians,” the resolution stated….