It’s become a common mantra by protesters at universities across the country: “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.”
Broadly, the protesters want their universities to sell off their investments in companies that have businesses or investments in Israel because of the country’s invasion of Gaza. That’s where the term divest comes from.
The calls on campsus vary. Columbia University protesters, for example, have a broad list of divestment targets, demanding the Ivy League college disclose and unload investments in a broad set of companies with ties to Israel, including Google, Amazon and Airbnb.
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