Posted on 09/10/2024 6:08:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Pro-Palestinian students rejoiced on August 29, 2024, when San Francisco State University (SFSU) announced it would divest from three arms manufacturers because they allegedly fail to meet "human rights standards."
NBC Bay Area reported that the three companies are Lockheed Martin, Palantir Technologies, and Leonardo.
The divestment decision followed weeks of protest from pro-Palestinian students. The students "camped out and protested for three weeks in a nationwide call for universities to disclose and divest from what they categorized as companies profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land and the war in Gaza.
Caterpillar — a heavy equipment manufacturer, not an arms manufacturer — is also being targeted.
KQED noted that Caterpillar’s "bulldozers have been armored and in some cases weaponized by the Israel Defense Forces."
The San Francisco State University Foundation, "which handles the fundraising of private donations and how they’re invested," has already confirmed that investments in Lockheed Martin, Palantir Technologies, and Leonardo have been sold in keeping with the agreement reached with student protesters.
Rama Ali Kased teaches race and resistance studies at SFSU, and he commented on the divestment, saying, "We worked with the university this summer to ensure that our investment policy was aligned with the values of our university, a university that upholds social justice, economic justice and racial justice as part of the mission of the university."
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AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, a Pulsar Night Vision pro-staffer, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History.
daddy pays tuition, so who cares if the prices go up... right???
Divest from arms manufacturing? Do they hate Ukraine? (that should throw them into spasms of cognitive dissonance)
Apparently this is a private foundation even though it supports a public university. So maybe it is time for the state to sever ties with the foundation.
Am I the only one that’s offended
Actually, it should have no such effect.
How can the administrators of this institution even consider such an illogical unmoral proposition. How stupid can one be?
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