After an all-night session, the UCLA student council defeated an ant-Israel divestment resolution by a vote of 7-5. (Featured image is moment vote announced.)
The vote received enormous attention, and was trending in the U.S. on Twitter.
This is a huge defeat for BDS on campus. Divestment resolutions recently were overturned at UC-Riverside and defeated at UC-Santa Barbara. I can’t say whether this is a national trend, but it does signify that pro-Israel students now are more organized than in the past.
(added) Ben Shapiro made a “guest” appearance against the resolution:
In this image, one of the student council members a student note taker, who appears to have supported the resolution, is crying and screaming that she’s never been so disappointed and that “we just fucking blew it.”
(UPDATE — Video HERE)
From Israel hater Ben White, one of the most aggressive BDS supporters (not a student at UCLA), the consolation prize:
(Note: The student crying in the image above apparently was a note taker, not council member, and the text has been updated accordingly.)
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