{"id":37887,"date":"2024-05-07T10:54:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?p=37887"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:55","slug":"mira-sucharov-what-students-protesting-israels-gaza-siege-want-and-how-their-demands-on-divestment-fit-into-the-bds-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/2024\/mira-sucharov-what-students-protesting-israels-gaza-siege-want-and-how-their-demands-on-divestment-fit-into-the-bds-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mira Sucharov: “What students protesting Israel\u2019s Gaza siege want \u2014 and how their demands on divestment fit into the BDS movement”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A wave of protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people is spreading across college and university campuses. There were more than 400 such demonstrations by the end of April 2024<\/a> just in the U.S., with many more in Canada<\/a> and other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The specific demands<\/a> vary<\/a> from place<\/a> to place<\/a>. What unites them is a call for schools to use their financial leverage and other kinds of influence to apply pressure on Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protesters are demanding divestment<\/a>, meaning the sale of financial assets either related to Israeli companies or shares in other corporations perceived to assist the Israeli military. In addition, many protests include calls for the disclosure of those financial ties<\/a>. They also feature demands for colleges and universities to distance themselves from Israel by ending study-abroad programs<\/a> and academic exchanges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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A wave of protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people is spreading across college and university campuses. There were more than 400 such demonstrations by the end of April 2024 just in the U.S., with many more in Canada and other countries. The specific demands vary from place to place. What unites them is a call for schools to use their financial leverage and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37888,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37887\/revisions\/37888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}