Hampshire College divesting over IDF ties

It has started. The first American College has caved into Arab pressure and has divested itself from companies they have decided that support Israel.

Hampshire College is a small college specializing in liberal arts education. It was founded in 1958 and is situated at the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Hampshire College was the first college or university in America to diverse itself of all its South African holdings during the 1980's.

Student activists at Hampshire College are hailing a divestment decision by the board of trustees that they say makes the college the first in the country to break financial ties with companies specifically because they do business with Israel. But the college strenuously denies the move was politically motivated.

The campus group at the Amherst school, Students for Justice in Palestine, said it had pressured the board to divest from six companies because of human rights concerns in the Palestinian territories. The group said it urged trustees to sell off holdings in a mutual fund run by State Street Global Advisors that invests in companies that "provide the Israeli military with equipment and services in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza."

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I am sure that when told of this these moonbats jumped for joy and shouted the usual chant of the oppressed Arabs: "Death to the Jews!"

The college has denied that this is the reason for the divestiture. It claims:

But the college's director of communications, Elaine Thomas, insisted the message spread on-line was incorrect.

In a "statement of clarification" sent by Thomas to The Jerusalem Post on Thursday evening, the college's president, chairman of the board of trustees, and dean of faculty insisted the decision to divest from State Street had been made because the fund had been found by an outside consultant to hold stocks in "well over 100 companies engaged in business practices that violate the college's policy on socially responsible investments. These violations include: unfair labor practices, environmental abuse, military weapons manufacturing, and unsafe workplace settings."

The statement acknowledged that the Board of Trustees' initial review of the college's State Street holdings had been based on a complaint by Students for Justice in Palestine about six companies doing business in Israel.

In other words, what the college is saying is:

We have a large body of Jewish students here. And although we have to divest ourselves from Israel to keep our Liberal, Moonbat status, please don't stop sending your Jewish children or better yet just the money to us.

For if they really were interested in human rights they would divest their portfolio of all companies doing business with the following nations:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Chad, China, Congo, Cuba, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

Each one has and is committing acts of unspeakable cruelty. Yet there is no calls of divestment over the crimes these states commit each day. They are protected from such because it is not being done by Jews.

Divestments of this form are just another way of showing their anti-Semitism.