City College students form 3rd major campus encampment to demand divestment from Israel

Gothamist— Pro-Palestinian protesters set up an encampment at CUNY's City College in West Harlem on April 25, 2024. Students at the Harlem campus set up more than a dozen tents and spoke out in the central quad. [ more › ]

dailym.ai—Columbia starts SUSPENDING students in anti-Israel encampment barring them from campus and student housing after hundreds refused Ivy League university's demand that they vacate by Monday afternoon. Student demonstrators at Columbia University, the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted at colleges across the U.S. are being suspended after, defying requests to leave.

The Guardian—Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel. What does that mean?. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in GazaAs protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza are spreading throughout American campuses, one demand made by students across schools keeps coming up: divestment from Israel.Universities rely on endowments to fund things like research and scholarships, and those endowments are typically invested in companies and alternative asset classes, such as private equity and...

Mother Jones—Students are demanding universities divest from Israel—and dirty energy. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote to the […]