Ahead of tomorrow’s World Press Freedom Day, Gaza’s Government Media Office has called for the protection of journalists and their right “to freely express and disseminate information and facts” without being killed, targeted or arrested.

Israeli occupational forces have so far killed 141 journalists in Gaza since the start of the war and wounded more than 70.

Iran has announced sanctions on several American and British individuals and entities for supporting Israel in its war on Gaza.

15 arrested in West Bank since Wednesday evening

Divest from Israel

What is divestment?

"Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,” protesters at Columbia and universities across the country have chanted.

University students are getting arrested and suspended as pro-Palestine protests are burgeoning across campuses in the United States. Students are expressing solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where more than 34,000 people have been killed in Israel’s war of the enclave since October.

Students are calling on their universities to “disclose and divest” their investments in companies and organisations linked to Israel and its war on Gaza.

What does divestment mean?

Divestment is the process through which an organisation sells off its shares, assets, or other investments for political, ethical, or financial reasons, according to the Cornell Law School website. In the case of a university, to divest would mean to pull out of investments in certain companies made with money from the university’s endowment fund.

The demand for divestment is not new in the movement against Israel’s occupation of Palestine. In fact, divestment is central to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, an international effort calling for the boycott of companies accused of being complicit in the occupation of the Palestinian territory, the war on Gaza and violating international law.

What are the students’ divestment demands?

Protesters at Columbia passed around a leaflet during admitted students' weekends on April 20 and 21, listing the names of some of these corporations.

Lockheed Martin, HEICO, BlackRock, Google and Microsoft – Caroline Anne Bissonnette.

The New York University (NYU) Alumni for Palestine website calls on NYU to “terminate all vendor contracts with companies playing active roles in the military occupation in Palestine and ongoing genocide in Gaza, namely Cisco, Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar and General Electric”.

Students at different US universities are calling for greater transparency about their institutions’ investments.

Why have these companies been named?

The NYU Alumni for Palestine group cited investigations published by the Economic Activism Program of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organisation that promotes lasting peace with justice, which names four specific companies.

An investigation of the US-based technology company Cisco revealed that it had established a long-term partnership with Israel in 2018 to develop government-subsidised co-working hubs to help integrate small towns and remote regions to the Israeli high-tech industry. Some of these hubs have been at least partially established in “occupied Palestine and Syria”. Israel’s occupation of the West Bank (Palestine) and the Golan Heights (Syria) is viewed as illegal under international law by most countries.

Maryland-headquartered Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest military company, and an AFSC investigation found that it supplies the Israeli government with weapons. Additionally, the weapons are sometimes “gifted to Israel through the US government’s Foreign Military Financing program”, the investigation found.

Equipment made by US bulldozer manufacturer Caterpillar has also been gifted to Israel through the US financing programme. The Israeli military routinely uses Caterpillar’s D9 bulldozers to demolish Palestinian properties, the AFSC found.

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Solidarity with the protesters!

America's message to the world is clear:

You can't protest
You can't march
You can't chant
You can't express solidarity or wear certain symbols

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Recent reports indicate that the company generated over $88 million in March alone.

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Children in northern Gaza send a thank you message to students at American universities.

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Gaza students extend their deep
gratitude to student protesters worldwide, who are camping at their universities to demand a full divestment from the Israeli apartheid and occupation and an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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