Divest From Companies Complicit in Violations of Palestinian Rights
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George Washington University Students Vote To Divest From Companies Complicit in Violations of Palestinian Rights
By Divest This Time at GW, impact
The student senate successfully passed “The Protection of Palestinian Human Rights Act”. It demands the university divest from corporations that “provide goods and services to Israeli military forces” used “to bomb hospitals in Gaza, bulldoze Palestinians’ homes, construct illegal Apartheid walls, and further suppress and violate Palestinian human rights.”
The George Washington University Student Association Senate has voted YES to Divest from corporations invested in the ongoing occupation of Palestine, in spite of efforts to challenge the integrity of the bill. These 9 multibillion-dollar, multinational corporations — the larges...