What means "divest?"
It's one of the core demands of most pro-Palestine protesters
Vox has a pretty good explainer on what protesters means when they ask colleges and universities to divest from Israel. This goes to the heart of a little-discussed part of higher education — namely, massive endowment funds that are invested in a variety of entities, including the military-industrial complex.
Higher education investments are complicated…
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