SJP, GLO protest at Corporation meeting

Protestors

BY SAM LEVINE UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR

As members of the Corporation, the university’s highest governing body and fiduciary, gathered at the Faculty Club early Friday morning for their February meeting, around 20 members of Students for Justice in Palestine and the Graduate Labor Organization were stationed outside the building, ready to greet Corporation members and promote SJP’s “Divest and Democratize” campaign.

SJP and GLO members carried signs and distributed fliers to arriving Corporation members, calling for the university to “withdraw investments in securities, endowments, mutual funds and other monetary instruments with holdings in companies” that the group said are “profiting from Israeli apartheid and (are) complicit in human rights abuses against Palestinians,” according to the flier.

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Several Corporation members took fliers from protesters and stopped to speak with SJP and GLO organizers about their demands.

In the past two years, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch — two major human rights organizations — published reports alleging that the actions of the Israeli government toward Palestinians amount to apartheid.

In March 2020, the university’s Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies re-