The American Brown University finally gave in to the students’ demands
The administrators of the American "Brown" University, in agreement with the pro-Palestinian sit-in students, announced that they will investigate the suspension of investment in Israeli companies. |
According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the Washington Post reported that Brown University in the state ” “Rhode Island” of the United States has reached an agreement with the pro-Palestinian sit-in students to vote to stop investment in occupied Palestine. CNN also reported that the students also announced in a statement that today at 5 o’clock They will end their sit-in in the evening local time. They described the agreement as an “unprecedented” victory and the vote as a “huge privilege” and considered it a sign of the “power of the sit-in” and the “national student tent movement for Palestine”.
According to the agreement, The university is set to vote in October to stop investing in Israeli companies supporting the university.
The student statement also said: “Although the sit-in will end, we are organizing to ensure that the administration of Brown University responds to our demands to divest [from Israeli companies]. , it will continue until the university vote next October”.
However, student sit-ins and protests in other American universities continue despite heavy police repression, and according to the latest statistics, they have covered 79 American universities. .
The Washington Post wrote in a report on Monday that at least 900 students have been arrested since the beginning of the protests. The pro-Palestinian sit-in has asked them to stop or they will be arrested.
© | Webangah News Hub has translated this news from the source of Tasnim News Agency |