The ASUC Senate passed a resolution upholding ASUC’s divestment from companies on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctioning, or BDS, list and urges UC Berkeley to do the same during its
ASUC officials debated the timing and accuracy of a resolution seeking to transfer the administration of the Multicultural Initiative Fund to the ASUC Grant & Scholarship Foundation.
The ASUC passed SR 23/24-048 protecting Jewish and Israeli students and their allies at Wednesday’s senate meeting, one week after passing a similar resolution for Palestinian students.
Senators denounced antisemitic hate crimes and Islamophobic rhetoric during the ASUC Senate meeting Wednesday, urging the student body to stay correctly informed regarding escalating violence in Israel and Gaza.