UMN: Divest from Israel now!
It's been over 200 days since Israel escalated its U.S.-funded genocidal attacks on Palestine. More than 34,000 Palestinians have been murdered in the last 6 months – a severe undercount now that Gaza medical staff have officially lost the ability to count their dead [1].
As students across the U.S. gather in encampments to protest the ongoing genocide, the University of Minnesota (UMN) has been silent. It is unfathomable that the university has not acknowledged the devastating loss of Palestinian lives or the genocide in Gaza.
Over $839 billion is invested as endowments across U.S. universities [2]. While the UMN hides where their endowments go, UMN students camp on campus grounds to demand the administration divest from war and murder.
The UMN Board of Regents have the power to begin the divestment process. In fact, the UMN began divesting from fossil fuels in 2021, human rights violations in Burma in 1998, and the South African apartheid in 1985 [3, 4, 5]. Student movements for divestment has always been the catalyst for change.
Take action now and demand the UMN Board of Regents divest from Israel!
UMN Students continue to gather to urge UMN to:
Divest from all companies complicit in genocide and war crimes
Ban Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, General Dynamics, etc from campus and academic involvement
Boycott all Israeli Universities
Disclose all investments
Recognize the Thawabit, the rights of the Palestinian people
Amnesty for all students, staff, faculty, and community for pro-Palestine activities
As thousands more Palestinian lives are taken due to the ongoing genocide, it is vitally important to end the U.S. and the UMN's complicity in this genocide.
Join the call and tell the UMN Board of Regents: No money for war! No money for death!
Sources:
[1] Gaza's death toll now exceeds 30,000. Here's why it's an incomplete count
[2] Archived 2023 NACUBO-Commonfind Study of Endowments
[3] Under student pressure, University of Minnesota to phase out fossil fuel investments
[4] Burma resolution, University of Minnesota Student Senate Minutes
[5] University of Minnesota Board of Regents Meeting Minutes
