WND EXCLUSIVE

U.S. STUDENTS JUMP OFF DEEP END: RENOUNCE AMERICA

Urge university to take astonishing action

Aaron Klein

TEL AVIV – A resolution approved by the University of California Student Association board calling for financial divestment from the United States highlights the penetration of professional, radical leftist groups in U.S. academia.

A WND review of the leadership of the UC Student Association board finds all three of its officers support the United States Student Association.

The USSA is a radical anti-war group that calls for open borders and divestment from Israel and opposes U.S. military intervention overseas.

UC’s student association represents all 233,000 students on the system’s 10 campuses.

The “Resolution Toward Socially Responsible Investment at the University of California” passed with an overwhelming majority vote of 11-1-3, reports CollegeFix.com.

The resolution cites U.S. drone strikes overseas, complained about illegal immigrants being held in detention centers and accused the police and federal prison system of racial and ethnic discrimination.

It calls for UC leaders to divest from the U.S.

“The government of the United States of America is engaged in drone strikes that have killed over 2,400 people in Pakistan and Yemen, many of them civilians,” the resolution states.

It says the U.S. government “oversees, by far, the highest rate of imprisonment in the world, and racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement agencies, particularly for drug-related offences.”

The resolution states “400,000 undocumented immigrants are held in detention centers every year, and millions have been deported since the current administration took office, and the government is directly supporting and propping up numerous dictatorships around the world with weapons sales and foreign aid.”

The resolution directs UC system leaders “to withdraw investments in securities, endowments, mutual funds, and other monetary instruments with holdings” from the governments of Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Sri Lanka and Mexico.

A separate resolution, passed with a 9-1-6 vote Sunday, singled out Israel for divestment.

Cornell University law professor William Jacobson opined the anti-U.S. resolution made the UC student association look like “fools.”

“The U. Cal. student government has proven a point I’ve made repeatedly in terms of the academic boycott: If you are going to boycott Israel, then you need to apply those standards to the whole world, which will result in boycotting yourselves.”

“I’m not glad that the Israel divestment passed,” he wrote for his blog, Legal Insurrection, but at least it passed combined with a resolution which made the anti-Israel students and U. Cal student government look like fools.”

‘Politics of Fidel Castro’

Discover the Networks documents the United States Student Association is a member of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition. DTN says the group “is led by Leslie Cagan, a longtime committed socialist who aligns her politics with those of Fidel Castro’s Communist Cuba.”

USSA calls itself the “oldest and largest national student association.” It lobbies heavily for government benefits to extend to illegal aliens and is a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which DTN calls “an open-borders entity that seeks to secure amnesty and full civil rights and liberties for illegal immigrants.”

The USSA declaration rejects any “military action our government has taken since September 11″ and purports that “destroying the resources of an already impoverished nation does not promote peace and justice.”

The UC Student Association’s student board consists of the following three officers:

• Jefferson Kuoch-Seng, president. He lists the USSA on his LinkedIn bio in the list of organizations he supports.
• Kevin Sabo, board chair. His LinkedIn profile also lists the USSA among his participatory groups.
• David Santillan, secretary and finance officer. Santillan also is a USSA board member, WND found.

With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott.

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