‘Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest’. This is the demand from the protesting US students. — AFP
AS they gathered near the guarded gates of Columbia University in upper Manhattan last Tuesday, a hundred or so protesters began to chant: “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.”
“Divest” is a demand that has been repeated, on banners, in editorials in student newspapers and during rallies that are sweeping across campuses now gripped by a wave of pro-Palestinian activism.
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