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...1980s, students from around the country, including Harvard, led a national grassroots effort to end investments in companies operating in Apartheid-era South Africa. In 2002, students again petitioned university administrators to divest from companies with business ties to Israel for its apparent violations of international law. Today, Harvard students have a unique opportunity to do something that will help defeat terrorism: urge Harvard University’s endowment to divest from companies that operate in terrorist-sponsoring states...
This time, there are multinational corporations that could be targeted for doing business with terrorist-sponsoring regimes. The results can be much the same as the South Africa example. Moreover, universities have already set a precedent that they will divest to right injustices. Will university administrators, who already endorsed a selective divestment campaign against South Africa, be able to argue that apartheid was a greater evil than terrorism is today? I suspect...
Thirty-nine Harvard professors join a petition calling for the University to divest from companies that do business in Israel. The joint Harvard-MIT petition argues that universities should not invest in Israel until Israel ends its occupation of Palestinian territories and stops alleged human rights abuses...
Karl W. Deutsch, Stanfield professor of international peace, said the University should divest because it is considered “a flagship in the U.S. and the rest of the world...
...we’d missed the sit-ins of the war years, but there was still a substantial amount of political activism on campus,” she writes in an e-mail. “I remember many rallies in the Yard protesting apartheid and urging Harvard to divest its holdings in South Africa...