#US / Brown University agrees to hear divestment proposal if encampment is cleared
Brown University has agreed to hear a divestment proposal from student protesters in May, on the condition that the current encampment protest is peacefully disbanded.
[...] The University has previously said that the endowment is not directly invested in weapons manufacturers. Brown’s Investment Office is contractually obligated not to disclose the content of the managers’ portfolios but assured that none have a specific focus on defense manufacturing.
[cont’d] #US / Billionaire Donor Barry Sternlicht Assails Brown’s Deal With Protesters
Jewish money in US academia is still not a problem apparently… imagine it’d be #Qatar, for example, withholding donations from Universities not condemning Israel for war crimes in Gaza, apartheid, settler violence, mass arrests, illegal occupation, attacks on academic and press freedoms, etc.
Favorite quote: […] the two sides did not agree on “facts and moral clarity,” as well as the scale of Israel’s invasion of Gaza … not sure what he means by “moral clarity”, but I doubt it anything justifies Israel massacring innocents civilians.
[…] Mr. Sternlicht, 63, said that no deal with protesters could be fruitful because the two sides did not agree on “facts and moral clarity,” as well as the scale of Israel’s invasion of #Gaza after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack..