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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 435

divestment

Illustrative: An employee in the offices of the Bezeq telecom firm in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on February 22, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
December 4, 2024, 12:54 pm
Norway wealth fund divests from Bezeq over services to West Bank settlements
Decision follows toughening of stance by fund’s watchdog, which says presence of telecom firm in disputed territory violates international law even though it also serves Palestinians
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palantir CEO Alex Karp arrives as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer convenes a closed-door gathering of leading tech CEOs to discuss the priorities and risks surrounding artificial intelligence and how it should be regulated, in Washington on Sept. 13, 2023. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
October 27, 2024, 5:58 pm
Norway’s Storebrand divests from Palantir over use of its software by Israeli forces
Norwegian asset management firm pulls its investment from US provider of AI data platform deployed by Israeli authorities for surveillance and security in West Bank and Gaza
By Sharon Wrobel
Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activists face off during a tense debate over divestment at a University of Washington Board of Regents meeting, September 2024. (Screenshot/via JTA)
September 27, 2024, 5:24 am
US universities that cut deals with anti-Israel protesters are now paying the price
Hoping to rein in protests on campuses post-October 7, several universities agreed to mull Israel divestment, but even this unprecedented move is inadequate for some activists
By Andrew Lapin
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters rally at University Hall at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 29, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
September 9, 2024, 11:47 pm
Brown University trustee resigns in protest of upcoming vote on Israel divestment
Joseph Edelman decries school’s ‘stunning failure of moral leadership’ in agreeing to student protesters’ demand; university criticizes his ‘misunderstanding’ of decision
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Mark Dion, mayor of Portland, Maine, votes in support of a city council resolution to divest from companies doing business with Israel, Sept. 4, 2024. (Screenshot via JTA)
September 5, 2024, 10:30 pm
Portland, Maine, city council votes to divest from companies doing business with Israel
Resolution listing dozens of companies passes unanimously following raucous public debate; mayor says vote is meant ‘to send a signal’ to Israel to end war
By Andrew Lapin
A message in chalk decorates a sidewalk after a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment was taken down at Brown University, April 30, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
May 27, 2024, 1:14 am
‘No rest till Brown divests’: Anti-Israel protesters interrupt university graduation
College president’s speech briefly disrupted by alumni-led protest calling for it to divest from firms contributing to Israel’s war against Hamas
By AP and ToI Staff
Police officers clash with pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) on May 15, 2024 in Irvine, California. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images, via JTA)
May 18, 2024, 1:29 am
Following crackdown on campus protests, U of California union authorizes strike
Facing first such Gaza war-related move, university system says striking over ‘non-labor related disputes’ is illegal
By Andrew Lapin
Fake bloody corpses left by pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists outside the home of University of Michigan board chair Sarah Hubbard on May 15, 2024, in video circulated on social media (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 16, 2024, 3:42 pm
Anti-Israel protesters put fake corpses at University of Michigan official’s home
Board member Sarah Hubbard says some 30 people demonstrated at her home, pitched tents; another board member says masked activist left list of demands at his home
By Agencies
Activists hang a placard from a window of an upper floor of a building at Rhode Island School of Design, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island, as students and supporters, who have taken over a portion of the building, are demanding that the school condemn Israel's war effort in Gaza, and that the school divest from investments that benefit Israel. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
May 10, 2024, 3:22 pm
Aiming for divestment, pro-Palestinian students push schools to open books on Israel
Protesters demand university endowments disclose assets linked to Israeli companies or those doing business with Jerusalem, though colleges have many reasons to resist calls
By AP and ToI Staff
A message in chalk decorates a sidewalk after a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment was taken down at Brown University, April 30, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
May 1, 2024, 10:16 am
Brown becomes first US university to consider divesting from Israel
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters clear encampment on campus after coming to agreement with university administration
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative - A Boeing 707 refueling plane and C-130 Hercules transport aircraft demonstrate aerial refueling at a graduation ceremony for soldiers who completed the Israeli Air Force's flight course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev Desert, June 28, 2016. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)
April 30, 2024, 8:51 am
Portland university ‘pauses’ Boeing ties amid Gaza protests, but students won’t budge
As Portland State University president promises to hold open forum in May to discuss donations from aerospace giant, students refuse to vacate encampment blocking campus library
By ToI Staff
Students demand their university divests from Israel at George Washington University in Washington, April 27, 2024 (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
April 28, 2024, 9:52 pm
Daily Briefing Apr 29: Day 206 – How seriously should we view the US campus protests?
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur delves into the motivations behind the protesters and the fallacies they are touting even as they demand a divestment that universities can’t deliver
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
November 1, 2021, 1:32 am
Two Jewish employees behind push to cancel Google’s $1.2 billion Israel contract
Ariel Koren and Gabriel Schubiner say deal to provide Jewish state with cloud-based data storage centers will contribute to surveillance of Palestinians and settlement expansion
By Eliyahu Kamisher
A picture taken from the Israeli settlement of Kedar shows the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, both in the West Bank, on October 26, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
July 5, 2021, 4:43 pm
Norway’s largest pension fund divests from firms linked to West Bank settlements
KLP, which manages some $95 billion worth of assets, says investments in companies tied to settlement enterprise ‘risk complicity in international law violations’
By AFP
View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
December 7, 2020, 2:00 pm
Israel’s first fossil fuel-free stock index aims to put investors in the green
Environmental groups hope new index excluding oil and gas firms from TA-125 will help wean institutional investors off industries driving harmful climate change
By Sue Surkes
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