The Berkeley, Calif. city council voted down a measure to divest city funds from companies doing business in Israel. According to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, the divestment plan — which had been touted as similar to the divestment campaign Berkeley participated in against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s — would also have called for a boycott of all Israeli products.
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