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"Divestment controversy
All along, officials at Hampshire College had insisted that the school's decision last month to dump a mutual fund was in no way prompted by the fund's ties to Israel, despite student activists' vocal assertions to the contrary. It appears that message has finally gotten through.
The Anti-Defamation League and Hillel, a Jewish campus organization, which had issued statements denouncing the movement for divestment from Israel, praised the Amherst college for flatly denying that its decision was politically motivated. Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, who had slammed Hampshire for singling out Israel, did the same.
"We welcome this unequivocal statement from Hampshire College that it did not divest from Israel, and that Israel in fact played no role in the college's recent decision to disinvest from a mutual fund," said Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director. "This is an emphatic repudiation of the campaign of misinformation that has cast the college's investment decisions in a false and politically biased light."
That was waged by the ADL ITSELF!! What ABSOLUTE CHUTZPAH!!!!
Last month, the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine trumpeted Hampshire's divestment from the fund, saying it marked the first time a college had broken financial ties with companies specifically because they did business with Israel. College officials said they left the fund after concluding that it included many corporations whose business practices violated the college's investment standards, and that the college has holdings with ties to Israel.
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