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Princeton students vote down boycott of Strauss hummus

You may recall the story of Israel's Strauss food conglomerate taking its support for the IDF off its English-language website in a bid to get the BDS'ers off its case. Strauss won a victory at Princeton University at the end of last week, although I'd be much happier if they hadn't compromised their principles while doing it.

With a vote count of 1014 to 699, the Princeton undergraduate student body voted down a referendum asking for the University to provide alternatives to Sabra hummus on campus shelves, Undergraduate Student Government President Mike Yaroshefsky ‘12 said in an email this afternoon.

The referendum, introduced last week by the Princeton Committee on Palestine, had faced some stumbling blocks between the initial petition and the official referendum. They sought the referendum due to allegations that the Strauss Group, co-owners of Sabra Hummus, were providing aid to an Israeli defense force that has allegedly committed human rights violations.

This story is developing, so we’ll let you know more as soon as we can.

Like I said, I'd be a lot happier if they had won this victory without compromising their principles.

Labels: boycott divest sanction, hummus, Princeton University, Strauss

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:20 AM