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Summers told donors that he takes “some satisfaction” in the fact that campus anti-Israel divestment movements have lost momentum since 2002. But he said that when comparisons are drawn between Israel and Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa, “something wrong is happening. And this is why I chose the words anti-Semitic to address proposals for the large-scale divestiture of companies doing business in Israel...
Some signers of the divestment petition also said that comparisons between Israel, apartheid South Africa, and even Nazi Germany, are perfectly legitimate...
...faculty. Protests and divestment campaigns began in the 1960s when the University founded the Harvard Management Corporation and diversified its assets into stocks and property. The campaigns have ranged from a 20-year, public effort to force the University to divest unconditionally from companies with ties to the apartheid government in South Africa, to innumberable small campaigns for the University to divest its holdings in companies like Playboy and in military contractors...
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...Corporation denounces the South African apartheid system as “repugnant and inhumane” but announces that it will employ a system of proxy voting for partial divestment, asking the companies in which it invests to withdraw from South Africa. The Corporation rules out complete divestment as a “relatively ineffective means of pursuing ethical ends”; President Bok expresses reluctance to use the endowment as a political tool. The fight over divestment extends to the Board of Overseers and the Corporation, Harvard’s governing boards; professors, student groups, and alumni associations petition...