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| Columbia protest escalates with campus building takeover - BBC News | |
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| Rallies, sit-ins and hunger strikes on campus have been going on since October, after Hamas gunmen killed around 1,200 people in Israel, leading to retaliatory strikes that have since killed more than 34,000 Palestinians. | |
| But the latest round of protests are focused on one thing: that universities financially divest from Israel. | |
| Many US schools have massive endowments, and student activists say that that money should not go into any companies who are doing business in or with Israel, because of its offensive in Gaza. | |
| The ask is not new - pro-Palestinian campus groups have for years called on their institutions to support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, as a way to push back against Israel. | |
| No US university has ever committed to the BDS framework, although some have cut specific financial ties in the past. | |
| Click here to learn more about the protests, and what the college students are demanding. | |
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