BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote.
Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime.
This is historic. Now the question is whether Harvard will listen to its students or its donors.
@QasimRashid What does "divestment from Netanyahu's regime" mean though?
@GM7077 @QasimRashid As far as I can tell it means about 600 of the 2000 law students voted to urge Harvard not to invest in any companies that help Israel defend itself: I think the language is “divest from weapons, surveillance technology, and other companies aiding violations of international humanitarian law, including Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine."
Harvard has an enormous endowment of like 50 billion that it uses to pay salaries and fund programs and whatever. It seems to regularly be the focus of activism, like "don't invest in oil companies" or whatever. As far as I can tell the folks running the endowment mostly just smile and nod at these fringy activists.
@ech @QasimRashid An occupying regime has no right to defend itself.
Go fuck yourself to oblivion.