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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
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.
As someone on twitter wrote: https://twitter.com/bitterarab/status/1785704132675813624
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.
I'm worried about this as well. Once the pressure is off, they can do whatever they want.