The University of California Student-Workers Union has voted (almost 2 to 1) for the university system to join hands with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. Evidently, the members of the union were swayed by the rhetoric of BDS activists who told them that “Bringing down Israel will really benefit everyone in the world and everyone in society, particularly workers.” Jonathan Marks provides the details in this Minding the Campus piece.

What makes this something more than your typical kind of feel-good campus activism is that other unions are pushing back. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers oppose BDS because it could adverse affect the livelihood of workers they represent. Predictably, they were not successful in persuading the student-workers that BDS is a pointless exercise that would only hurt some Americans who have nothing to do with Israel.