Divestment can mean different things depending on the nature of the institution’s financial ties. But the idea behind it is simple: It means removing all financial ties, such as withdrawing investments, and therefore ending direct complicity in criminal and unjust actions. American institutions of higher learning are economic powerhouses with massive endowments, and ultimately can be described as “big businesses.” Many of them use their funds to directly or indirectly invest in Israel. Harvard...
Students and community members rally for Michigan State University to divest from Israel.
Katrina vanden Heuvel It is a question of will, not capacity.
A symbolic sign for pro-Palestinian protesters at UMass, as the student government passes a divestment resolution.
The pro-Hamas "encampment" in Harvard Yard ended Tuesday morning after Harvard University officials agreed to reverse the suspensions of nearly two dozen participants, and to offer activists meetings on divesting from Israel.
Faculty at Amherst College have called for the institution to divest from weapons manufacturers involved with the war in Gaza.
Protesters on campuses nationwide have called on universities to divest from Israel due to the war in Gaza. Here's how divestment would actually work.
New York University student protesters walked out of their commencement at Yankee Stadium and demanded the university divest from Israel. The post NYU students walk out of commencement, demand university divest from Israel first appeared on WFIN Local News.
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(The Center Square) – Calling the elimination of an entire squadron and 520 jobs at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base unacceptable, U.S. Rep. Don Davis is steadfast alongside U.S. Sen. Ted Budd as leaders in Congress fighting to stop the change. Davis, an Air Force veteran from Snow Hill just a few miles away from the base in Goldsboro, authored a provision that prevents an F-15E combat squadron from being divested. It’s in House Resolution 8070, the base bill for the National...
By: Christian Wade | The Center Square New Jersey public colleges that divest from Israel could lose state funding under a proposal filed by Republican lawmakers, which comes in response to a wave of antisemitic protests on campuses. The package of bills calls for withholding state aid and other funding to any university that divests
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. An organization that represents Jewish communities on university campuses in the province says the encampment protests are intimidating for Jewish students. But an encampment in solidarity with Palestinian human rights at McMaster University says everything is peaceful. The protesters are calling on the university to divest from any Israeli organizations with ties to the war […]