A bill endorsing the BDS movement presented to the student government has been stopped by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The bill was put forward by to the university senate by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and if passed would have allowed for a referendum asking whether the university should “divest its stocks, funds, and endowment from companies that profit from or engage in human rights violations in US Prisons, at the US-Mexico Border, and in Occupied Palestine,” the Jewish Journal reported. The measure referred to Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Company for their business ties to the...