Activists tried to force a resolution but it was vetoed at the executive level.

Campus Reform reports.

Anti-Israel divestment fails at South Florida

An Israeli divestment bill at the University of South Florida (USF) was vetoed by the student body president and vice president shortly after its passage last week.

The student senate’s joint resolution called on the university to divest from corporations that the resolution says “are continuously and knowingly complicit in violations of Palestinian rights.”

The resolution asked that the university divest from corporations such as Caterpillar, which USF’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter claims supplies the Israeli army with bulldozers that destroy Palestinian homes.

“These bulldozers demolish Palestinian homes, construct the separation wall and create settlements on Palestinian lands, and cause civilian casualties,” the resolution stated.

Other companies on the list included: Hewlett-Packard, G4S PLC, Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and Lockheed Martin, which they say provides weapons “used in war crimes against Palestinian civilians.”

This resolution was just the most recent step in an over two-year process by SJP to pressure the university into divesting from corporations providing aid and materials to Israel.

SJP circulated a petition in 2014 that generated over 10,000 signatures calling for the university to divest from these corporations. It has the most signatures ever obtained on petition at a Florida university.