At many institutions of higher education across the country, student protesters are calling for their schools to divest their endowments from companies that do business with Israel. This isn’t the ...

Last month, Rhode Island School of Design Students for Justice in Palestine presented an Israel divestment proposal to members of RISD’s Board of Trustees. The board plans to “share their thoughts” on ...

From Georgia to California, more than 50 universities and colleges across the nation are currently contending with tent cities full of very unhappy customers. Those customers–students–are calling on ...

The calls for divestment to punish Israel echo student-led demands made in the 1970s and 1980s against South Africa over apartheid. They also are the most visible examples locally of the long-running ...

The divestment campaign, he argues, was at best a small part of a bigger change effort. The research on the efficacy of divestment shows little to no evidence of its impact on companies or practices, ...

Members of Northwestern University Graduate Workers voted 82-13 to adopt a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel at the union’s Oct. 9 general members ...

As part of our continuing series on BDS and its impact on the art world, we received the following response to curator Manon Slome’s “A Response to the Call to Boycott Israel” by artist Doris Bittar.

A s campuses come back to life this fall, many pro-Palestinian students will resume their protests from the spring against Israel’s war on Hamas. Once again they will demand that their colleges divest ...

Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in protest encampments with a unified demand of their schools: Stop doing business with Israel — or any companies that support its ongoing ...

College campuses can sometimes plant the seeds for dramatic shifts in public policy. This was most evident in the 1980s, when students across the country protested apartheid in South Africa. By ...

A pro-Israel group at the University of Pennsylvania, the Think Peace Coalition, expressed concern over a campaign called “Penn Divest from Displacement,” a divestment movement at the Penn campus, The ...

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced their decision to join the divestment movement last week, pledging to sell assets tied to fossil fuel companies from their portfolios and to continue investing ...