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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators want universities to cut their investments in everything tied to Israel and weapons that fuel the war in Gaza. But university administrators and lawmakers have for decades rejected the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel, viewing it as antisemitic.
A cause celebre is ringing out across Harvard Yard, Columbia’s South Lawn, Yale’s Beinecke Plaza and UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza: Disclose and divest.
Tents at Harvard and Brown went up three days after encampments at MIT, Emerson College, and Tufts University. The protesters are calling on the schools to divest from companies that support Israel.
Pro-Palestinian Encampment Develops at Harvard
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