"Wesleyan University dumps Sabra hummus after student campaign", 05 Dec 2014

Last month, all Sabra brand hummus products were pulled from Wesleyan University dining locations, including two cafés and a campus supermarket.

The Middletown, Connecticut, university’s Dining Service Committee agreed to remove the increasingly controversial brand after months of mounting pressure from student activists.

Sabra is a frequent target for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns because it is partially owned by the Israeli company Strauss Foods, which actively supports the Golani brigade, an “elite” unit in the Israeli army which is responsible for grave human rights abuses.

While Strauss has removed its more strident language praising the Israeli army since the BDS movement has grown, it remains a supporter of a brigade which has participated in some of the bloodiest attacks. In July, the Golani brigade carried out a massacre of dozens of civilians in the Shujaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip...