As multiple colleges and universities across the country are grappling with how best to ease tensions with pro-Palestine protesters, a group called The New School’s Students for Justice in Palestine is calling upon The New School’s board of trustees to vote to divest from 13 Israeli-related entities.
TNS SJP claimed that it is the first group in the U.S. “to win partial disclosure” — an unsubstantiated claim given the dozens of protests underway on college campuses and varying demands that are being made of school officials and their respective boards. TNS SJP alleged that The New School has invested in the aforementioned companies “that are actively involved in, and benefiting from, the genocide in Palestine.
Paulo L. dos Santos, associate professor of economics at the New School for Social Research, said in the release that a decision “not to divest from the 13 companies will be rightly perceived not as a financial decision, but as an endorsement of those corporations and of their involvement in Israel’s actions in Gaza.” Dos Santos did not respond immediately to a media request Thursday afternoon.