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<blockquote data-quote="Ana the Ist" data-source="post: 77665769" data-attributes="member: 302807"><p>It's really unclear what that actually means. </p><p></p><p>I've read about 6 articles now...from multiple sources...on what the protesters want to divest from.</p><p></p><p>It's incredibly difficult to find anything specific. </p><p></p><p>There are general "divest from Israel" or "companies that do business with Israel" type statements. There's no real explicitly lined out understanding of what that means. Israel is a nation....not a stock one buys on Wall Street. </p><p></p><p>The one thing that is pretty recurrent about these protests is....</p><p></p><p>1. The students don't know what sort of investments their universities have....in Israel or anywhere else. It's not public knowledge. This is something we can logically deduce from the protesters' demands of wanting to know their universities are investing. They wouldn't be demanding the information if they already had it.</p><p></p><p>2. No universities seem very interested in giving this information to the students. Obviously, there's no good reason to hand it to the students. It will, at best, show very little or nothing to protest and the students are unlikely to believe that....since they don't seem to be willing to consider anything they don't already believe. At worst, it will reveal some sort of investments in Israel....and likely other places that will become cause for more protests. There's no upside to sharing it with protesters.</p><p></p><p>3. Given the complete futility of these protests....we shouldn't be forgiving these debts. These aren't just students who are difficult to employ....they can't plan a picnic, let alone a protest. Let them carry the burden of their debt and if they complain, remind them of how they spent their time in academia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ana the Ist, post: 77665769, member: 302807"] It's really unclear what that actually means. I've read about 6 articles now...from multiple sources...on what the protesters want to divest from. It's incredibly difficult to find anything specific. There are general "divest from Israel" or "companies that do business with Israel" type statements. There's no real explicitly lined out understanding of what that means. Israel is a nation....not a stock one buys on Wall Street. The one thing that is pretty recurrent about these protests is.... 1. The students don't know what sort of investments their universities have....in Israel or anywhere else. It's not public knowledge. This is something we can logically deduce from the protesters' demands of wanting to know their universities are investing. They wouldn't be demanding the information if they already had it. 2. No universities seem very interested in giving this information to the students. Obviously, there's no good reason to hand it to the students. It will, at best, show very little or nothing to protest and the students are unlikely to believe that....since they don't seem to be willing to consider anything they don't already believe. At worst, it will reveal some sort of investments in Israel....and likely other places that will become cause for more protests. There's no upside to sharing it with protesters. 3. Given the complete futility of these protests....we shouldn't be forgiving these debts. These aren't just students who are difficult to employ....they can't plan a picnic, let alone a protest. Let them carry the burden of their debt and if they complain, remind them of how they spent their time in academia. [/QUOTE]
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