5/2/2014 ADL Welcomes Statement from UC Officials Rejecting Israel Divestment

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ADL Welcomes Statement from UC
Officials Rejecting Israel Divestment
New York, NY, May 12, 2010 The Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) today expressed its appreciation to University of California
officials for their strong, unequivocal statement in which they
announced their decision not to recommend to the university's
board divestment from companies doing business with Israel.
Student organizations at the University of California recently put
forward two bills calling for Israel divestment. Both resolutions
were defeated.
"The university did the right thing by making clear that it is unfair
to hold one country Israel to a different standard," said
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "The divestment
resolutions recently proposed at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego
were unfair in their isolation of Israel and were a thinly veiled
attempt to demonize and delegitimize Israel."
In the UC Statement on Divestment, President Mark G. Yudof
and Board of Regents Chairman Russell Gould and Vice Chair
Sherry L. Lansing made clear that "divestment needs to be
undertaken with caution" and that "any discussion on
divestment must be robust and fair minded." They said the
student resolutions failed that test.
In their statement, the university officials reaffirmed a 2005
Board of Regents policy that the university will only consider
divestment when the U.S. government declares that a foreign
regime is committing acts of genocide.
"We must take great care that no one organization or country is
held to a different standard than any other," read the UC
statement. "In the current resolutions voted on by the UC
student organizations, the State of Israel and companies doing
business with Israel have been the sole focus. This isolation of
Israel among all countries of the world greatly disturbs us and is
of grave concern to members of the Jewish community."
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that
counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
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