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Israel advocates, opponents celebrate Chicago school divestment bill

Israel advocates, opponents celebrate Chicago school divestment bill

Jewish News Service

Both the pro-Israel and anti-Israel camps are celebrating the passage of a college campus divestment measure. That doesn't happen too often, if ever. But for the pro-Israel side in this Chicago episode, the hope is that the student government legislation marks the start of a reframing of the debate on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

On Feb. 15, the Undergraduate Student Government Association at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) unanimously passed a pro-BDS measure that does not single out Israel. The legislation asks the school's Faculty Senate to support "divest[ing] fully from companies profiting from human rights abuses and violations of international law including in, but not limited to, Palestine, Syria, China, United Kingdom, U.S.-Mexico border, and Chicago."

Some victims in mass shooting support efforts to hack iPhone
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Some victims in mass shooting support efforts to hack iPhone

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some victims of the mass shootings in southern California and their families will file documents encouraging a U.S. magistrate judge to uphold her order that Apple Inc. help the FBI hack into a locked iPhone as part of the terrorism investigation, a lawyer said Monday.

A Los Angeles attorney, Stephen Larson, said he represents at least several families of victims and other employees he declined to identify but who were involved in the shootings. He said the U.S. attorney in the case, Ellen Decker, sought his help. Larson said he will file a brief supporting the Justice Department before March 3.

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