“Our demand remains clear: the Wesleyan Board of Trustees must approve the CIR’s divestment proposal, which acknowledges the severe ethical concerns surrounding the Israeli occupation”Wesleyan University’s board of trustees rejected a plan Saturday to divest from companies tied to the Israel-Hamas war.
“These companies enable indiscriminate bombings, manufactured famine and war crimes that include sexual violence and torture,” students wrote in a statement before the vote, according to the “As nearly 90 percent of schools in Palestine have been destroyed by tuition-funded, U.S.-made, Israeli-dropped bombs, we are committed to ceasing the operations of Weselyan’s investment office — which controls over $20 million in aerospace and defense companies — until the Board of Trustees commits to divesting from the U.S.-Israel war machine,” the students stated.
Anti-Israel student activists occupied the school’s investment office in protest a day before the vote, “impeding administrative business,” according to a written statement from Wesleyan officials.