CUNY teachers union overturns resolution to divest Israeli holdings

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CUNY teachers union overturns resolution to divest Israeli holdings

Delegates of one of the largest educators’ unions in New York City voted on Feb. 20 to rescind a resolution passed less than a month earlier to divest the union’s holdings from Israeli companies.  The vote to rescind happened on the recommendation of union leadership, who wrote to members of the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) in a Feb. 13 email that they had discovered irregularities in votes cast for t…