Baghdad-INA
Brown University announced that it had reached an agreement with a group of its students opposing the war in Gaza, stipulating that the protesting students remove their camp from the campus in exchange for a promise that the university would reconsider its relations with companies linked to the Zionist entity, in the first agreement of its kind between a prestigious American university and the movement. Talbi supports the Palestinians.
Christina Paxson, president of the university located in the city of Providence, Rhode Island (northeastern United States), said that the protesting students agreed to end their protest and dismantle their camp.
She explained in a statement that the students also agreed “to refrain, until the end of the academic year, from undertaking any other actions that would violate Brown University’s Code of Conduct.”
The statement added that, in return, “five students will be invited to meet with five members of the Brown University Foundation in May to present their arguments regarding divesting Brown from ‘companies that facilitate and profit from genocide in Gaza’.”
This agreement represents the first major concession by the administration of a prestigious American university in the face of the student protest movement that continues to expand in scope in the United States. These protests caused the arrest of hundreds of students, the paralysis of several universities, and a sharp division in American public opinion.
Severing ties between major American private universities and sponsors and companies linked to the Zionist entity represents one of the demands of the student movement that defends the Palestinian cause and calls for an end to the war on Gaza.
During the past two weeks, pro-Palestinian student protests have spread to universities spread throughout the United States, from California in the west (University of California-Los Angeles, University of Southern California…) to the northeastern states (Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Eupen) through the central states. And the south, such as Texas and Arizona.
Brown University students and administration must still discuss the broad outlines of this agreement during the period extending from May to October.
Student Leo Corzo Clark said that the agreement is “a major victory for this international movement and the people of Palestine.”
2024-05-01 13:48:17