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UC Riverside Strikes Deal with Pro-Palestinian Mob, Violates California Anti-BDS Law

The University of California Riverside capitulated Friday to the calls for of pro-Palestinian activists at a campus “encampment,” breaking with the remainder of the University of California (UC) system to contemplate divesting from Israel.

The activists, a part of a nationwide effort by anti-Israel activists and organizations — which can have international funding, according to the New York City Police Department — additionally demanded that UC Riverside boycott Israeli universities.

Local KTLA 5 reported:

The encampment started on April 29 as protestors occupied the world beside Bell Tower. The motion was led by the college’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.

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The UCR Administration agrees to kind a activity drive that features college students appointed by ASUCR’s Diversity Council and school appointed by the Academic Senate to discover the elimination of UCR’s endowment from the administration of the UC Investments Office, and the funding of stated endowment in a fashion that will probably be financially and ethically sound for the college with consideration to the businesses concerned in arms manufacturing and supply.
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The School of Business has discontinued Global Programs in Oxford, USA, Cuba, Vietnam, Brazil, China, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel.

The UC Riverside chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) portrayed the phrases of the deal considerably in a different way, claiming triumphantly on Instagram that the establishment suspended “all study abroad programs with Israel.”

In addition, SJP claimed that UC Riverside had dedicated to boycotting the Sabra model of hummus. “Sabra” is a Hebrew phrase referring to a native-born Israeli. Some activists declare that Middle Eastern meals like hummus are “stolen” by Israel from Arabs. (Sabra is based in the U.S.)

In return, the scholars within the encampment agreed to take down their tents, having “won” by coercion.

But it isn’t clear how UC Riverside’s settlement will comport with present California legislation that stops anti-Israel boycotts, generally known as “anti-BDS” (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) laws. In 2016, then-Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed AB 2844, which stipulates the next:

It is the intent of the Legislature to make sure that taxpayer funds aren’t used to do enterprise with or in any other case support any state or non-public entity that engages in discriminatory actions towards people underneath the pretext of exercising First Amendment rights. This consists of, however will not be restricted to, discriminatory actions taken towards people of the Jewish religion underneath the pretext of a constitutionally protected boycott or protest of the State of Israel.

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An individual that submits a bid or proposal to, or in any other case proposes to enter into or renew a contract with, a state company with respect to any contract within the quantity of 100 thousand {dollars} ($100,000) or extra shall certify, underneath penalty of perjury, on the time the bid or proposal is submitted or the contract is renewed … That any coverage that they’ve towards any sovereign nation or peoples acknowledged by the federal government of the United States, together with, however not restricted to, the nation and other people of Israel, will not be used to discriminate in violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Section 51 of the Civil Code) or the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 12960) of Part 2.8 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code).

UC Riverside joins Brown University as the primary establishments to offer in to calls for that they take into account divestment from Israel. However, it isn’t clear whether or not UC Riverside can fulfill that demand independently of the UC system’s personal coverage towards divesting from Israel.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the writer of the current e-book, “The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it),” now accessible on Audible. He can also be the writer of the e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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