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BDS Momentum Stalls on U.S. Campuses
(JTA) Ben Sales - Within two weeks in February 2015 the BDS movement - which aims to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel - scored three campus victories: at Northwestern University's student Senate, the University of California Student Association, and Stanford University's Undergraduate Senate. But nearly two years later, the wave seems to have receded. Of about a dozen BDS resolutions passed since November 2015, only two or three have come at major universities. A BDS resolution at the University of Michigan failed last month. Most significantly, not one university has actually divested from Israel or companies targeted for doing business in the West Bank. Hillel International President Eric Fingerhut told JTA, "We have been in touch with university leaders, trustees and administrators to help them oppose, to help them understand why any kind of academic boycott or divestment would be the wrong thing to do. They've all agreed with that position."