University of Michigan Student Senate Votes for Divestment
The University of Michigan’s (Dearborn campus) student government unanimously passed a resolution calling for the university to divest from companies selling to the Israeli military.
“We want the university to withdraw their investments so these companies think twice about selling their products or their services to the military,” said Bilal Dabaja, 21, a senior political science major.
The vote passed unanimously, and Dabaja said it had nothing to do with the campus’s location in Dearborn, the heart of the region’s Arab-American community. Dabaja said student leaders at UM-Dearborn hope students at the university’s Ann Arbor and Flint campuses will pass similar resolutions.
Others do not believe the reolution will gain the same support on the university’s other campuses.
It’s unclear how much — if any — support the measure has outside UM-Dearborn. Terry Teicher, chairman of the Jewish student group Hillel at UM’s main campus, said it’s unlikely student leaders in Ann Arbor would support such a resolution …
“At Michigan (in Ann Arbor), the representatives of student government as a whole recognize that divestment is counterproductive to encouraging peace, and encouraging dialogue.”
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