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Students elected Ghassan Abu-Sittah as rector by a landslide. Management investigated him and distanced itself from him, and the governing body voted against divesting from arms companies. Throughout the genocide in Gaza, the university’s principal was a trustee of the Walton Foundation, the charity of one of Scotland’s leading Zionist families. The foundation paid his university £275,000 and funded Lubavitch, the Scottish branch of the Chabad movement.
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Blacklist war 2.0: China vs US companies
A new wave of economic retaliation is pushing US–China tensions to a familiar breaking point, as both sides expand their corporate blacklists in a fast-moving escalation. After the United States targeted several major Chinese companies over alleged military links, Beijing responded with its own sanctions against prominent US firms and tightened controls on strategic materials.
Tim Anderson
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