Growing Movement: Students push for Israel divestment

Honolulu Star-Advertiser— Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in protest encampments with a unified demand of their schools: Stop doing business with Israel — or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza.

Egyptian Streets—Brown University to Deliberate on Divesting from Israel After Student Protests. Brown University reached an agreement on Tuesday with students protesting the war in Gaza, leading to the removal of student encampment from school grounds in exchange for the institution considering divesting from Israel, as per a statement by the university. The move represents the first major concession from an elite American university amid relentless student protests that have paralyzed campuses across the country, divided public opinion, and led to hundreds of arrests. In a statement,...

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 […]