This chapter delves into the UC Berkeley protests highlighting the students' demands for divestment from the university's investment fund linked to Israel and arms manufacturing companies. The chapter discusses the complexities of divesting from index funds and touches upon the BDS movement in connection to the divestment campaign.
Protestors at universities across the country have been demanding that their institutions divest from companies that are tied to Israel or the war in Gaza, a demand universities have long rejected as antisemitic.
On today’s Big Take podcast, Sarah Holder talks to Bloomberg higher education reporter Janet Lorin and California reporter Eliyahu Kamisher about what’s really inside endowment funds and why universities are unlikely to yield to the calls of disclose and divest.
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