bq. The latest academic call for divestment from Israel isn’t a demand to boycott its colleges, nor to withdraw investments in companies based in the Jewish state. This one is something of a culinary conundrum.
bq. Hummus has already been the butt of high-profile jokes about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but a student group at Princeton University isn’t laughing. Those students take hummus so seriously, in fact, that they are waging a campaign against one brand of the chickpea spread whose owner has been accused of contributing to human rights violations of Palestinians in the West Bank because the company supports the Israeli military.
More “here”:http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/30/hummus.