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Boycott Of Israel
Proposed Again

2 U-M Dearborn faculty members
urge divestment by university.

Don Cohen
Special to the Jewish News

Palestine." Originally scheduled to
be presented to President
Coleman and the regents this
ike a bad penny, the effort to week, it will likely be delayed until
divest University of
the next semester.
Michigan funds from the
Skrbina declined to be inter-
companies doing busi-
viewed by the Jewish
ness with Israel has
News saying every-
turned up again, this
thing he has to say on
time publicly led by
the issue is covered in
faculty.
an Oct. 31, 2005, edito-
Last spring, the stu-
rial "On the question
dent government at the
of divestment from
Ann Arbor campus,
Israel-Palestine" in the
the Michigan Student
University Record by
Assembly (MSA)
him and Thomson,
resoundingly defeated
and on the supporting
a divestment resolu-
Web site.
Rachel Snyder
tion, and coupled with
While studying an
U-M President Mary
issue may seem harm-
Sue Coleman's
less and appropriate,
September 2003 state-
especially at an educa-
ment that she opposes
tional institution, pro-
divestment and the
Israel activists believe
regents' refusal to con-
the main goal of the
sider a divestment res-
divestment campaign
olution, one might
is to put Israel,
think that U-M was
Zionism and their sup-
ready to move on.
porters on trial rather
But last spring, the
Allan Gale
than actually achieve
student governments
divestment.
at the Flint and
Dearborn campuses
Defending
voted in support of
Israel
divestment; and now
"Divestment
support-
an ad-hoc group of
ers
always
say
they
faculty decided to
want
to
start
a
dia-
carry the battle for-
logue;
but
you
can't
ward.
start one if you con-
U-M-Dearborn fac-
stantly put the people
ulty David Skrbina, a
Wendy Wagenheim
you
say you want to
lecturer in philosophy,
dialogue
with on the
and William Thomson,
defensive
says
Rachel
Snyder, a
emeritus associate professor of
sophomore
from
Maryland
who
psychology, have organized an
co-chairs
American
Movement
for
online letter for faculty urging
Israel
(AMI),
the
Ann
Arbor
cam-
formation of a university commit-
pus' main pro-Israel group.
tee to examine divestment. The
letter says that the signers "believe Snyder sees the faculty-led effort
as a way to bypass student oppo-
that there exist serious moral
sition to divestment. Pro-Israel
questions regarding university
activists have instead urged
investments that help to support
efforts to invest in peace in the
certain policies and actions of the
Israeli government with respect to region.

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