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Brown University agrees to hold Israel divestment vote after pressure from student protesters
The Hill ^ | 04/30/24 | NICK ROBERTSON

Posted on 04/30/2024 4:01:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Brown University’s corporate board will vote on a proposal to divest from Israeli interests, the university announced Tuesday, a major victory for student protesters who have taken over dozens of college campuses nationwide.

Protesters at Brown will tear down their encampment at the center of campus and cease demonstrations through the end of the school year as part of an agreement reached Tuesday, University President Christina Paxson said.

“The devastation and loss of life in the Middle East has prompted many to call for meaningful change, while also raising real issues about how best to accomplish this,” Paxson wrote in a statement. “Brown has always prided itself on resolving differences through dialog, debate and listening to each other.”

“I cannot condone the encampment, which was in violation of University policies,” she continued. “Also, I have been concerned about the escalation in inflammatory rhetoric that we have seen recently, and the increase in tensions at campuses across the country. I appreciate the sincere efforts on the part of our students to take steps to prevent further escalation.”

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1 posted on 04/30/2024 4:01:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Brown University will soon be changing its’ name to Yellow


2 posted on 04/30/2024 4:02:56 PM PDT by shadeaud (God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Divest the Jihadi “Students”.


3 posted on 04/30/2024 4:04:44 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: shadeaud

Christina Hull Paxson has served as Brown University’s 19th president and professor of economics and public policy since July 1, 2012.
Under Paxson’s leadership, Brown has fortified its standing as a leading research university [that’s a laugh] known for its excellence and innovation in undergraduate education, its transformational vision in fueling economic development through community and government partnerships, and its commitment to inclusion and access. [blah, blah, blah]


4 posted on 04/30/2024 4:06:19 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: shadeaud

Nah. Green. Their flag is green. 🇸🇦


5 posted on 04/30/2024 4:06:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Like the townspeople cowering and peeking out from the edge of the barn door to see if Gary Cooper is going to stand up to the bad guys.

Just say no if the rules and regulations and edicts say you can’t trash buildings, say direct threats to Jewish students or stay in place blocking access after several warnings to disperse by the police.

The word is “no.”


6 posted on 04/30/2024 4:08:44 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The same thing happened in Europe back when.


7 posted on 04/30/2024 4:18:15 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: MinorityRepublican

Students wanted universities to get rid of the Oil stocks and the universities had to raise tuition to make up for the loss ,LOL


8 posted on 04/30/2024 4:20:14 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MinorityRepublican

How many zeros were on that check to buy your spectacularly flaccid response to your campus brats, Ms. Paxson?


9 posted on 04/30/2024 4:20:50 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Bookshelf; All

Unreal.

https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2014-09-03/why-i-am-a-jew


10 posted on 04/30/2024 4:21:40 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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11 posted on 04/30/2024 4:22:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Even family guy mocked Brown university so it’s fitting


12 posted on 04/30/2024 4:23:37 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: frank ballenger

When I tell people at my job or or in the community they’re wrong I get told I’m mean. In this culture it is mean to tell people they’re wrong when they’re wrong- ripping off their employer or their customers or they’re a student blocking $90 k per year paying students from going to class

But it’s not mean to rip off the employer, the customer, the student It’s mean to tell the terrorist sympathizers they’re wrong but it’s not mean to be mean to the Israelis. Hamas is a state department declared enemy, terrorist org and Israel is classified as friendly by our state department

It’s part of why people hate trump. He’s mean

Who is he mean to. That
Doesn’t matter to my compadre suburban housewives. What makes these people so stupid. The suburban women?

The Ivy presidents- that’s easy. They’d Hamas sympathizing o b a m a appointees


13 posted on 04/30/2024 4:27:17 PM PDT by stanne
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Great post.

Someday we’ll have to show them “mean.” Not good little boys and girls.

Something I never learned until recently “You don’t need others’ approval.”


14 posted on 04/30/2024 4:31:23 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: butlerweave

Hopefully, Brown Univ. will go down in bankruptcy. Then the other 7 “Ivy League” institutions of insanity will follow. Our country will be some much better off without them.


15 posted on 04/30/2024 4:33:19 PM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: MinorityRepublican

DEFUND NOW !


16 posted on 04/30/2024 4:34:23 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: frank ballenger

That is what it will take. They won’t change. This side will have to change. Trump shows how it’s done


17 posted on 04/30/2024 4:34:26 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Bookshelf

She’s also Jewish. And that I just don’t understand.


18 posted on 04/30/2024 4:35:20 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: MinorityRepublican

The adults leading the way...


19 posted on 04/30/2024 4:43:24 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Kind of resembles Amy Klobuchar


20 posted on 04/30/2024 4:44:49 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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