Students at Bath University have voted down a motion to adopt a BDS policy on campus.
The motion, which described Israel as an “apartheid regime”, was rejected by 343 votes to 249 with 216 abstentions.
If it had been successful, the proposal would have meant that the institution’s student body would “end all contracts with companies and institutions complicit in the apartheid and lobby the university to do the same”.
The motion was one of 10 voted on by the university’s students at a meeting earlier this month – and the only one that failed to pass.
