Harvard’s Law Faculty of Law students voted for $ 53 billion in charges of “weapons and monitoring technology” and other companies linked to Israel, a symbolic vote that attracts renewed attention to the protest movement that attracted the anger of the Trump administration.
The Harvard University administration said last year that it will not retract and does not carry students ’vote any application, but this step brings back the anti -Israel protests in the spotlight at a time when President Alan Garper is trying to reassure Republicans who take serious criticism of the school, which includes its treatment with reputation.
The move comes days after the administration withdrawn $ 400 million from Columbia University, and immigration officials arrested the anti -Israel protest organizer. Harvard said last week that he would temporarily freeze faculty and employees amid concerns about federal financing.
“The Trump administration’s threats aim to intimidate us to submit, but this referendum indicates that these efforts are strengthening our solidarity with Palestine,” Irene Amin, an organization with law students, said in a statement. The note said that 73 % of the 842 students who voted chose to get rid of investments. Law College has approximately 2000 students.
Students who have long supported the Balatiyah demanded universities to cut ties with Israel, moves almost completely by officials, even after the protests on the campus were intensified in the wake of Hamas’s attack in October 2023 on the Jewish state and the revenge of Israel.
Schools and legislators rejected the boycott, or to get rid of sanctions, or BDS, and a movement against Israel, and considered it anti -Semitism because it questioned the legitimacy of the Jewish state and the individual policies of one state.
Harvard’s Law College said in a statement that it strongly supports the rights of freedom of expression for students. He added that the administration had no role in the referendum conducted by the student government.
As shown in a message to the students, the administration expressed its deep disappointment in the decision of the student’s government to move forward in an exciting referendum of disagreement, it must contradict the declared goals of the students of the students of “strengthening society” and “strengthening inclusion.”
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
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