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Students fight off anti-Israel boycott motions at two universities

Students at two UK universities have fought off anti-Israel boycott motions

February 15, 2017 13:01
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Anti-Israel boycott motions have failed at two British universities.

Ulster University in Northern Ireland and City University in London rejected proposals in the past week. 

Students at Ulster defeated a motion in a student union vote. At City, where a motion which had passed in November was rejected by the university’s board of trustees, an amended policy was due for debate but was pulled by the proposer, leaving the university without any accepted boycott policy.

Michali Belovski, City JSoc president, said she was “proud that Jewish students and our allies came together to vote against the motion, ensuring by their sheer number that the vote did not go ahead.

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