(Independent-UK) Jon Stone - The UK's National Union of Students has voted to censure its newly elected president, Megan Dunn, for accepting Coca Cola sponsorship for an NUS awards ceremony. NUS adopted a boycott of Coca Cola in August 2014 because Coca Cola Israel operates a distribution center in Atarot next to Jerusalem (that serves the Arab population of Jerusalem), a dairy in Shadmot Mehola in the Jordan Valley, and a winery that owns vineyards in the Golan Heights. The union's national executive voted 20-14 to criticize "Dunn's refusal to accept that Coca Cola is a target of the BDS movement or to release an apology for accepting their sponsorship."
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