2024-05-04 08:49:06
Brown University, Northwestern University, etc. promise to review requests to suspend transactions with Israel
Tactics to prevent disruption of final exams and graduation ceremonies… War expected to end before new semester
As protests against the Gaza war spread to universities across the United States, some universities are reaching agreements with protesters to allow final exams and graduation ceremonies to be held.
Brown University, Northwestern University, and Rutgers University pursued a completely different solution from the situation in which more than 2,400 people have been arrested at 46 universities across the country since the 17th.
The agreement with the protesters includes hearing requests that the university review its investments in Israel or stop doing business with Israel, a longtime U.S. ally.
This agreement marks a significant change from the previous position that calls for a boycott of Israel are anti-Semitic. However, university officials have not promised to change their investments in Israel.
Ralph Young, a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, said, “It appears to be a tactic by the university authorities to disperse the demonstration. “The end of the semester is approaching and the war in Gaza will be over before the start of next semester.”
Professor Young added that there are universities that will not discuss changing their investments in Israel. He also said some state universities do not have such authority.
Professor Young emphasized that the university authorities’ dialogue tactics are a better response than arrests that could provoke protesters.
He added that the dialogue “makes the protesters feel like they have something to gain, but whether they actually get anything is a different matter.”
The University of Minnesota returned to normal on the 2nd after authorities reached an agreement with protesters to end the campus occupation.
Acting President Jeff Ettinger said the protesters would not disrupt final exams and graduation ceremonies, but that a representative of the protesters would speak at the university’s board of trustees next week. The representative is expected to emphasize withdrawal of investment in Israel.
Protesters at Rutgers University also demolished tents occupying the campus on the afternoon of the 2nd. University authorities promised to establish an Arab cultural center and prevent punishment of protesting students.
University President Francine Conway said in a statement that she was reviewing the protesters’ demands to divest from companies doing business with Israel and to cut ties between Rutgers University and Tel Aviv University, but that “such decisions are beyond the university’s authority.”
Protesters at Brown University in Rhode Island also dismantled their tents on the 2nd. University officials said students could argue that the Brown University Foundation divest from companies profiting from the war in Gaza.
President Christina Paxson said she will ask the university’s advisory committee to present a plan to withdraw investment by September 30, which will be voted on at the board of directors meeting in October.
Northwestern University, a suburb of Chicago, also remained quiet after reaching an agreement on the 1st. University authorities made promises such as creating an investment advisory committee.
Faculty at Pomona College in California announced on the 3rd that they voted to support changes to investments in companies that finance Israel in the Gaza war. Faculty votes are non-binding.
Meanwhile, arrests of protesters continue across the country. On the morning of the 3rd, about 10 protesters who refused to remove tents were arrested at New York University, and 132 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on the 2nd at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Nine people were also arrested at the University of Tennessee. More than 100 people were arrested at Columbia University in New York, the epicenter of the protests, on the afternoon of the 2nd.
[뉴욕=AP/뉴시스]
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