Harvard Law School’s student government has labelled Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide, in an open letter demanding the US university divest from Israel.
“Harvard Law School Student Government formally calls upon HMC to divest completely from weapons manufacturers, firms, academic programs, corporations, and all other institutions that aid the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians,” the student body said in an open letter posted on the university website.
The resolution was passed in an anonymous vote of 12 to four, with three abstentions, but has generated some blowback. Two members of the student body, Regina De Nigris and Cameron Adkins, said they strongly disagreed with the decision in a resignation letter, according to The Harvard Crimson.
The open letter makes a historical case for Harvard Management Company’s $50bn endowment to divest from Israel.
It noted that in 1986 Harvard conducted a “selective divestment” of companies selling products to apartheid-era South Africa’s military. In 1990, the university divested from tobacco stocks, citing its “desire not be associated with companies engaged in significant sales of products that create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm”…..more
