Almost 50 universities in the USA started encampments in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza. On the global scale, there are over 53 ongoing encampments.
A central demand of protesters is for universities to divest from any companies that are advancing Israel’s military efforts in Gaza, and in some cases, from Israel itself.
The demands are different from campus to campus, such as “Stop doing business with military weapons manufacturers that are supplying arms to Israel”, “Stop accepting research money from Israel for projects that aid the country’s military efforts”, “Stop investing college endowments with money managers who profit from Israeli companies or contractors”, and “Be more transparent about what money is received from Israel and what it’s used for”.
Today, over 100 students were arrested by the police at Northeastern University. The police cleared it as ‘an unauthorized encampment’.
Biden condemned the protests saying, “this blatant antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous – and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country”.
By Apr. 27, the US universities in solidarity with Palestine are as follows (in alphabetical order) :
Brown University
California State Polytechnic University
City University of New York
Columbia University
Cornell University
Emerson College
Emory University
Fashion Institute of Technology
Florida International University
Florida State University
George Washington University
Harvard University
Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan State University
New York University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Portland State University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
Texas A&M
The New School
The University of Michigan
Tufts University
University of Arizona
University of California at Berkeley
University of California Los Angeles
University of Connecticut
University of Houston
University of Illinois Urbana
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of Minnesota
University of New Mexico
University of North Carolina – Charlotte
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Texas, Arlington
University of Texas, Austin
Vanderbilt University
Yale University
