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Brown University agrees to hold Israel divestment vote after pressure from student protesters (thehill.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The protests are working!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What's stopping the uni from just not divesting? Seems like a way to just hope the students will just graduate or just forget by the time the vote happens in October

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

They're not going to divest if the protesters leave. This is a ploy to get them to leave and then hold a vote where they choose to keep their status quo.

It's literally, "we see you, we hear you" but it works on college kids that don't know what it means.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

As someone on twitter wrote: https://twitter.com/bitterarab/status/1785704132675813624

Oh my god this deal sucks get back in the tents 😭😭😭😭😭

I don’t want to be hypercritical because I am proud of every student taking part. But leaving it to a vote for the administration to have in five months (that means five months of genocide profiteering), that’ll probably end up in a no vote, is not a win!!!!

Go to reading festival if you wanna camp please don’t accept these ridiculous deals and set shitty precedents for everyone else. Look at your agemates at Hind Hall!

So yeah, this is not a win. It's the system being crafty, pretending to capitulate in order to disperse activist energy. If it was a vote within a week, I could understand. Then the pressure would be on them to act appropriately. Five months away with what's happening to Palestine right now and has been happening is plenty of time for them to wait for energy on the issue to weaken, for the situation to change dramatically by then so that it's no longer relevant in the same way, etc. Then they can silently vote "no" and have it be a footnote in some press thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I'm worried about this as well. Once the pressure is off, they can do whatever they want.