Pro-Palestine protests: What are college students demanding?
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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...
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Protesters at Pitt demand university disclose ties to Israeli organizations
Echoes of the chant, “Free free Palestine” rang throughout the lawn in front of the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning Tuesday...
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AUC Students Protest to Demand Divestment from Israel-Linked Firms
Students at the American University of Cairo (AUC) staged demonstrations on 22 April urging the university administration to sever ties with corporations accused of supporting the Israeli occupation, a joint Instagram post by the Egyptian Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement and the Anthropology Sociology Egyptology Association (ASE) explains. The two companies in question are information and technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) and insurance company AXA, the post reveals. The...