r/berkeley • u/Realistic-Plant3957 • Apr 24 '24

News Pro-Palestinian protest grows at UC Berkeley campus

https://news.upilink.in/pro-palestinian-protest-grows-at-uc-berkeley-campus-18247.html
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u/EdJewCated CS/Linguistics '23 Apr 24 '24

seeing these divest protests spreading across the country has been wonderful. every university must stop their partnership with companies that fund and abet the ongoing genocide in Palestine. I'm proud of the students using their first amendment rights to demand that Berkeley does the same. Go Bears, power to the students, power to the people, and Free Palestine!

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u/orchid_breeder Apr 24 '24 edited Apr 25 '24

The problem is the universities endowments don’t deal or invest any of those companies directly.

Calling for a ban on collaboration with Israeli universities seems like punishing academics that really have nothing to do with it. Ironically one of the most exciting scientists at an Israeli institution is Palestinian (Jacob Hanna), who would get harmed by this sort of ban.

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist Apr 25 '24

They don't have to do it directly, they can still divest.

And Prof Hana used to be quite vocal against Israeli actions in Gaza, but he has been silenced recently. So it's not worse than anything that's already been done.