BDS Growing 5-19-2016

19, May 2016                                   BDS Growing

Recently, members of the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution to divest from the State of Israel and corporations that profit from the illegal occupation of Palestine. 81% of its members voted to support the resolution.  In doing so, the TAA joins other graduate student unions at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of California System, and at New York University, who have stood in solidarity with Palestinian Civil Society’s call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) as a non-violent tactic to apply political and economic pressure on Israel to cease its gross violations of human rights and international law. It is time for the US to ‘walk the walk’ and prove to the world that it stands by its much touted core value - the promotion of human rights and support for the democratic aspirations of people all over the world yearning to be free -  including the Palestinians. It is time to make further U.S. aid conditional on ending the Israeli occupation and lifting the siege of Gaza. For more, go to http://callforsocialjustice.blogspot.com/