University of California divests from Israel and ends study abroad programs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Students at the University of California (UC) announced UC's divestment from Israel and the cessation of study abroad programs. This decision followed a pledge signed by over 5,000 UC alumni, withholding donations until UC divests from companies with military and business ties to Israel.
Alumni published an open letter in January urging an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and calling for divestment from Israel, particularly in military investments. This letter was directed at the regents chair and UC president. Organisers of the pledge report that the number of signatures has quadrupled since 22 April, coinciding with the start of encampments at UC Berkeley.
On 26 April, the University of California announced it would not divest from Israel. The office of the president issued the following statement:
"The University of California has consistently opposed calls for boycott against and divestment from Israel. While the University affirms the right of our community members to express diverse viewpoints, a boycott of this sort impinges on the academic freedom of our students and faculty and the unfettered exchange of ideas on our campuses."
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For clarity and specificity: This is the University of California Riverside, which is part of the UC system. Well done to these students.
Thank you for the clarification ❤️🩹
Thank you, I was wondering which UC it was. What a great achievement ❤
Meaning, for it to be binding, the other UC branches would have to go along in unanimity, or a simple majority suffice, or will the UC chancellor/president/rector have the final word based upon the board of directors diktat?
It is just local to riverside. And it is only a transparency clause in order to see donations and investments of Riverside specifically. Los Angeles Berkeley and all of UC investments are under the authority of the regents of the university of California.
@@hectorhuerta3331 I think the more important thing to look at, and the bigger reason that this is a win is because it shows a precedent that there are some schools that are willing to do the right thing, thus alienating and pointing out the lack of care or compassion mixed with exposing the rampant geopolitical ignorance and delusion of the schools that don’t(a protest that ended with the result the pro Palestinian protesters intended while being orderly and having no “violence” or “riots” to be seen)
If UC Riverside could do it, other schools can. UCR shows the way! Bravo!
I'm not sure how much of relationship they have with apartheid state, but I definitely know how deep Harvard and especially MIT is invested in selling their technology including military contracts, and those in charge are not as humane and sympathetic as the gentleman in the video. It's just too much money that they'll not let go of it without a battle.
God save America!
Irish Universities have divested from Israel.
This action is one way that universitiesnbuild their reputations as assets to society.
@@engineeringforlife1367another ISLAMIST
It's big win thanks to students of California University for standing with justice standing with Palestine
fake news i believe so bcoz no other news channel has reported this
On their behalf (I went to University of California at Santa Barbara 25 years ago), they thank you, but they were doin it for Palestine.
Now that we've finished the courtesy, I would like to inform you that I think this news involves only UC Riverside, which has about 35,000 students, many of whom are from immigrant families or are the first in their family to attend college, because it is a less prestigious campus thanothers.
I don't think this affects the entire University of California system, which includes at least 14 cities with UC Campuses, such as the largest one, which is UCLA in Los Angeles, with about 60,000 students, and the oldest location, with 40,000 students, UC Berkley, which is also known as California University. So be careful to remember that UC is not the same as CU, which is not ussd because it would be confused with the 60 city CSU California State Universities system where most of the California students attend. The UC systems is reserved for the top 15% of high school graduates.
My son will go to this university one day, InshaAllah.
@@willkeyes8859 what will he study there, peace studies, womens right, gay rights, the basic tenets of democracy.
@@williammohan9784
Anti Genocide rights.
This is justice being done. Now for Palestine's freedom
Inshaa Allah
Palestine has always been free... but they used their freedom to kill jews like chickens...
@AliAsif303 Hamas doesn’t believe in freedom for their own citizens 😉
no such thing as palestine
@@michaelfisher1537 and yet ancient Greek writers called the land "Philistia" 12th century BCE ! (According to Britannica)
- 450 Palestinian villages were destroyed by the Colonialist Zio’nists to setup Isriael, 70 years ago.
- For last 70 years the criminal settlers kept pushing Palestinian people out till half of them left and the remaining half were pushed into congested areas like Gaza.
- Hundreds of civilians killed by Isriael every year.
- 30 children killed by Isriael in 2022.
- 200 civilians killed by Isriael in 2023, before the current conflict.
Why should Israel not be called as a mad colonialist occupier?
Down down occupied
@@سولافاالسعد Israel is a terrorist entity. Everyone knows this today.
@@سولافاالسعد Israel is a terrorist state. Everybody knows it today.
@@سولافاالسعد “Everyone knows today that Israel is a terrorist entity.” - Manu Pineda (European Parliamentarian) on 2024-02-01, during farmers protest.
Rubbish learn your history 😅
I Salute Students, Faculty and Governing Body of Univ of California for their Honorable, Courageous and Just decision to dovest from Business interests that are supporting the Israeli Genocide and War atrocities against Palestinian Civilians in aGaxa, West Bank and other Palestinian Occupied Territories.
Truth and justice ❤well done well done 👍...we will all be one world as the mahdi is coming.yehhhhh😍
@@sachinifernando6081 good luck on that
Keep it up young adults! The truth shall set us all free from Israeli Zionism and oppression.
👍
I watched "the Occupation of the American mind" on TH-cam and the truth is horrific. Those zioNazi are just pure Evil
Another motivation that speaking out actually can have a positive effect!
Oppression comes from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Iran. They are the cause of all this suffering.
No
WELL DONE🎉.
Thank You.❤
Wow, no riot police, no drama, no Fox News coverage about violence? This is what should be happening all around the world. Honest, straightforward discussions about reality and being human.
and not kidnapping americans but hey?
Being human at the first mean not to take hostages, not to rape and not to kill. Let hostages go home and then pretend to be a human otherwise you are not.
@@alexeyakulovich4737What, you mean everything Israel has been doing to Palestinians for 75 years?
@@alexeyakulovich4737are you listening to yourself? Using your logic, stay off other people’s land so they don’t need to fight you. Every action has a reaction.
@@maria9704these people are so convoluted it’s crazy. They say all these things and go ahead and practice the opposite. They conveniently forget the occupation going on for over 7 decades.
Thank you standing with right side of history
Right up there with Germany and Nazism
This history?
The British Peel Commission recommended a partition of Palestine in 1937 based upon the population transfer of Arabs out of the Jewish State. The Jewish Agency, which was the de-facto Jewish government within the Mandate, rejected the principle.
The "International Post-War Settlement" document issued by the British Labour Party in 1944, stated that the party’s official position was: “…in Palestine surely is a case, on human grounds and to promote a stable settlement, for transfer of population. Let the Arabs be encouraged to move out as the Jews move in. Let them be compensated handsomely for their land and let their settlement elsewhere be carefully organised and generously financed.” The Jewish Agency rejected this idea as well.
The Jewish Agency accepted the terms of the November 1947 UN Partition Plan, which required both the Jewish and Arab States to grant the Arabs in the Jewish State and the Jews in the Arab State full democratic citizenship, as well as the option of remaining in their homes in one State while being citizens of the other. The Arabs rejected this principle. The Jews living in areas designated as part of the Arab State, as well as those in areas designated as part of the Jewish State, came under attack even before the end of 1947.
Shortly after the passage of UN resolution 181 the Arab League had recruited thousands of volunteer soldiers who came from as far away as Serbia, under the banner of the Arab Liberation Army, to infiltrate Palestine and resist the implementation of the UN resolution. In April 1948 the Jewish Agency and the Hagana, the precursor to the IDF, had a very clear mission. They had to ensure a secure and viable Jewish State, and to defend the lives of the Jews within Palestine, as the British forces withdrew. The mission of the ALA, together with the Holy War Army of the Arab Higher Committee, and to some degree the British led Jordanian Arab Legion, was to prevent that from happening. Battles ensued in most Arab villages and neighborhoods between the Hagana and local “defenders”.
The policy was clear. Arab villages and neighborhoods within the Jewish State that demonstrated the willingness to remain within the Jewish State were not to be disturbed. Arab villages and neighborhoods hostile to being included in the Jewish State, would not be included in the Jewish State, but would be escorted to the border of what was supposed to be the Arab State of Palestine. Thanks primarily to the meddling of the Arab League and their ALA, most Arab villages and neighborhoods fell in the latter category.
Israel did not expel the Arabs, it facilitated the voluntary transfer of the Arab population that clearly did not desire to reside within the Jewish State. The Arabs who remained are those who were resigned to the prospect of becoming citizens of the Jewish State. That option was not granted to Jews within the parts of Palestine that fell beyond the 1949 armistice demarcation lines. No Jews remained within the areas of Palestine occupied by Jordan or Egypt. In fact, within a few years of Israel’s creation, no Jews remained in the bulk of the Arab world. There has been a complete ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Arab world which the international community prefers to ignore, while having no problem whatsoever pointing an accusatory finger at Israel for not preventing the flight of the Arab population that rejected being included in the UN mandated Jewish State.
Well done to the students and the faculty for standing up for what's right!
Bravo!
Thank you young students.
Thank you faculty.
Thank you administrators.
Lots and lots of love, prayers and hugs for you.❤🤲🏻🤗
The title is misleading. The video difficult to hear at times, painfully loud at other times, there has to be a better recording somewhere. The entire University of California system has not agreed to divest. Only the University of California Riverside has agreed to disclose its investment and divest from companies involved in arms sales. It will also end its study abroad program with ISR. UCR is only 1 of 10 campuses in the UC system.
Way to try and minimize the success. I bet you’re the President of Party Poopers Club.
The Domino Effect is impending
@@aineahmed9963 Credit where credit is due. The title of the video gives the entire UC system credit for what only 1 out of 10 campuses did. Most of the administrators in the UC system, especially UCLA is going the opposite direction. UCB is famous for being one of the most liberal if not the most liberal college in the United States. The current administration of UCB however, is undeserving of that reputation.
Well done👍👍we need more brave peaceful students like these
More power to these young students who have put their studies and careers on the line to stand with oppressed people of Palestine, a just and noble cause to support them with all the means they can. Many congratulations and hope and pray more universities will follow UCR. Respect and prayers from Pakistan 🇵🇰
It is time to liberate our universities from lobbyists and hedge fund managers who think that their donation is what keeps the campuses running. Bravo UC
Yes, they are all non profit!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank You sincerely 🙏 University of California. Thank You
University of California Riverside, thank you students and thank you everyone who helped! Love to us all!
Bravo bravo 👏 🎉!!! You young ones will change the world and end this brutal occupation!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
WELL DONE! WELL DONE!! WELL DONE!!!
Well done University of California
Bravo to all these students !
And happy to see the faculty listen to their student's demands instead of resorting to the brutality of the police.
Congratulations! 👏👏👏👏👏You are making changes! Keep up the great work! In solidarity!✊
Finally, one school listens! Thank you, UC Riverside for showing courage.
Do u realize what no studying abroad programme means?? They are essentially not gonna take in students from muslim countries.
And with regard to investments, the same money will be funded by proxy fund groups and companies. People are so naive 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Long overdue. APARTHEID should never be supported nor should genocide. Despot Netanyahu must be held accountable for his war crimes.
Brandon too!
He's peeing in his pants now
@@samayo9746 No he's not.
@@mattweisbart4061 the man came out panicking when he learnt that the ICC were on his case. He launched a misinformation tirade in English meant for his American audience to save him. Now Republicans say they will storm the ICC, just like they stormed campuses to deal with peacefully protesting students. Nazism in full flow
Apartheid? In Israel there are Jews, Christians, and Muslims co-existing in harmony. Tell me where Christians and Jews are welcomed in the Muslim Arab world? Why don't you protest the genocide of Shia Muslims by Sunni Muslims? Maybe because you are all Sunni and you believe that anyone with a religion or beliefs are are different from yours deserve to die?
BRAVO 🎉..well done everyone, we couldn't be prouder or more supportive ..call: FREE, FREE PALESTINE .. response: FREE, FREE PALESTINE ❤🍉❤🍉 🙏🏽 🕊 ✌🏽
Free Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Palestine was free--HAMAS started a WAR.
Universities are there for the students, not vice versa.
Financially universities serve society not the students.
Thank you to all who bring peace to the world.
Thank you, University of California, Riverside.
Go UC RIVERSIDE!!! Inspirational, hopeful, powerful. I’m not sure who the man speaking is, but if he’s the president-then therein lies the difference. He seems to have compassion for his students and their wellbeing-and unlike many institutions, holds that above keeping specific financial/political ties with _whoever_ , for _whatever_ reason! This is really freakin great to see.
This is amazing! ❤
Thank you University of California and you epic students 🙌🏻
This is not a win. The students will have to pay and some will not beable to attend because of the increase.
Funding can come from an entity that doesn't support Genocide and in America they can access free universities, scholarships, grants etc
Please don't believe that lie. It's hard trying to get support for higher education and tax payers are not going to have their taxes raised. After these demonstrations students will be back complaining about the cost.. Most of the people
demonstrating don't go to the university. Will you help them?
There are no free universities etc. Nothing is free someone has to pay. What world you
living in?
@@ernestinescott3553 yes there are many scholarships. educate yourself.
Scholarships are not free they are donated. Someone is paying for you to receive them. Also you have to qualify to receive a scholarship. There can be a limited amount given out.
History in the making! Thank you for your protest
THANK YOU
Now Israel needs to remove all interest in this place.
That's exactly what the protesters want 😂
No more money coming
That’s the whole point
@@thraciangrapesit’s Americas money
they will go broke by next year
Thank you to all the Brave Students And youth Of California we Love you all so freaking proud 💪💪🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸 Justice ⚖️ for Palestine 🇵🇸🕊️✌️ justice ⚖️ for Humanity 🆘🌍☝️🤲
May the voice of the people liberates the US from 41P4C occupation….These students are heroes!!!
❤
Thank you for standing up for the truth and humanity ❤
Humanity you mean like slaughtering 1300 innocent men women and children pathetic
Absolutely fantastic! Thank you, students, for supporting and defending Palestinian rights, you are most certainly on the right side of history. Good job! 🥰
Riverside divested!!! That is amazing 🤩🤩❤❤
This university should be ashamed of itself. The faculty that agreed to this should all be fired.
I will never donate any more money to UC. Nor will we hire any grad from UC except possibly hard core science and engineering students. The institution is broken.
Why? Because your ok with genocide? Why don't you tell us your companie's name so that others can also have the choice of not doing business with you for your amoral beliefs, whatever they may be.
Cope
Don't worry, it's only UC Riverside which has nothing to invest.
@@robjohnston366 It is disgusting, nevertheless, that this idiot panders to a tiny minority of agitators who operate in complete ignorance of both historical and current facts, who instead emote based on false narratives. What he should have done is given a brief tutorial to educate them.
who would want to work for someone like you who supports a genocdial regime . you exposed yourself. vile.
This is very, very, very good news. Thank you! 👏👏👏👏👏
Well done. Your hard work and dedication paid off. Thank-you!
Well done people we love you!
Well done UC 🥳🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you ❤ ! Well done !
Congratulations and thank you
Thank you
it is the wrong move , people who have never been to Israel or west bank - are protesting it - increasing the division and hate , they should increase study abroad programs for better understanding of the people who live there , there perspectives , and talk to local people and get better ideas of how to achieve peace , and maybe appreciate a bit more how well life is here in America.
Thank you UCRiverside!! Well done!! I am proud to be an alum of the UC system. I know that all of the UCs will divest in 2014 many did and that decision was reversed higher up in the State. We need to push this all the way through!
Please fix your captioning!The University of California has many campuses… You need to specify which campus this is or if it applies to all University of California campuses, (which unfortunately I think it does not).
Thank you California students
Good work students of UCR, congratulations & respect from Scotland.🙏🕊🇵🇸
A courageous man
Thank you
Thank you University of California and its brave courageous students..
Way to go....speak up fr injustice
Well done❤❤❤
NOW THIS MAN IS DEFINITELY NOT SOLD TO THE ZIONISTS. RESPECT 🙏 AND LOVE ❤FROM SOUTH AFRICA 🇿🇦 🇿🇦 🇿🇦
Yup. He is sold to oil money
Thank you students!
Thanks uNI OF CALIFORNIA
Really? That’s amazing! Wow!❤️🌺🥰✌️👍👏🌸🙏😍😍💯❤️🇵🇸✌️
Thank you. Standing for human rights and international law takes courages these days.
Congratulations to UC, a real University America can be proud of. More are joining the ranks every day!
Thank you University of California. Thank you the fearless students of UC..
UCR showing leadership and justice
Well, now I'm in tears of gratitude to you beautiful students. Thank-you from Australia for using your power and energy and intelligence and ethics to help the people of Gaza.
Bravo to USC. One thing, though, I think study abroad programs SHOULD continue regarding Israel -- these programs should contain two parts: study in Israel AND study in a Palestinian institution in the West Bank. Life is complex and so are people. By studying in Israel (I'm excluding the West Bank here) -- you will meet Israelis with diverse views and this experience should be combined with studying in a Palestinian institution. If someone opts to go to Hebrew University they should required to study at a Palestinian institution as well. (East Jerusalem should become a shared city by both Palestine and Israel). It's an incredibly eye-openning, thought-provoking experience to encounter Israelis who are right wing or settler and then get to meet on the opposite spectrum Israelis who are pro-Palestinian state and equal rights AND Palestinians and further, Palestinians who are on the right, center, and left in politics.
This is how I learned about the Palestinian-Israeli crises and their cultures. Coming from the US, I did not have the skillset to understand the complexities of the conflicts or what was Palestinian culture like, and through the program I participated on -- I got to meet Palestinians and learn all the horrible experiences and realities of their situation that have long been censored out of US msm media. I also learned who were Israeli settlers and just how fascist their movement truly is. It's hard to learn about the realities if you don't experience it firsthand and get to meet people and live in their culture. The good, the bad, the truly ugly. From there -- we can learn and try to remedy problems with informed and functional mindsets and understanding. THe fight is not over -- the Palestinians need a bona fide and real state, and both states need to live in peace.
FYI, we need our elected officials to enforce no money transfers or donations to Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories -- West Bank, East Jerusalem, and also Gaza if settlements return to there. It's illegal to do so per US law, but rarely enforced.
BRAVE STUDENTS GOT THE REWARD!!!
Paving the way for a bettee future for everyone well done 👏 ✔️ 👍 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I applaud the students for their efforts they ave changed history. Also thank you to University for being open to doing the right thing.
Well done University of California Riverside students ❤
This is alarming and disturbing. If you’re cheering about this in any way you are a part of the problem.
The title (not the preview) is misleading. University of California system is a collection of independent universities. Only UC Riverside has divested; others have not and still have encampments.
When will UCR divest from other Middle Eastern countries with human rights violations? Turkey? Iran? Azerbaijan? UAE? Saudi? Qatar? Egypt?
Or is this just a case of targeting only the Jewish state?
Go ahead ignore the war in Yemen. And the one in Sudan. And the one in Armenia. Go ahead and ignore the young women raped and murdered by the Iranian security forces.
Hypocrites.
Lol
@@johnlove2954 I mean I agree that this is cherrypicking, but there is a fair point in highlighting that many of the gulf states are modern slave societies.
Yeah you right,peace brother.
FTJz
It was never about "Palestine" it was always about the Jews. Shame.
Bravo to UC for taking this brave and morally correct step, now for the other universities to follow
What happened to we don't negotiate with terrorists.....this is a gift that keeps on giving...
Well, if you have a Jew in the picture then negotiate with the terrorist and label the Jew as the terrorist.
Thanks to honest man❤❤❤
Thank you ❤️💟
Thank you, California 💛
My dad got his Ph.D at UC Riverside! He isn’t here to see this, but I know he would be proud.
Yay California! Some good news from my home state amongst all the slander, id be surprised if my local news even reported this at all
What on earth is wrong with a study abroad program? Are they afraid that people will find out what a wonderful place Israel is and what wonderful, warm, tolerant people MOST Israelis are and how happy and supported the Arab Muslims who live in Israel are?
This is not a question asked in good faith. You really don't want the answer to your question. 40,000 Gazan civilians (mostly women and children) have been annihilated by Israel and you want to talk about how kind, tolerant and warm Israelis are? They've destroyed thousands of mosques, churches, schools, hospitals, bakeries and homes. Your 'kind, tolerant and warm' Israelis are responsible for multiple mass graves that have been discovered in Gaza recently. They destroyed entire hospitals to ensure nobody could be treated there. IDF soldiers have executed doctors and medical personnel. There is no small number of Israelis preventing aid from entering Gaza as well as committing crimes. Those videos have been proudly shared by your 'warm, tolerant and kind' Israelis on telegram. There are hundreds of Israeli politicians and journalists calling for Gaza to be obliterated.
Israel literally announced that it would bomb and starve innocents to punish them and you have the audacity to call them kind, tolerant and warm.
Of course, you find them kind, tolerant and warm. You're also a white supremacist nation founded on a genocide that kept denying it for centuries. The existence of some Arabs in Israel doesn't prove anything. There are laws that actively discriminate against them. The whole Israeli bureaucracy and society discriminates against them. Not to mention, Israel has the nation state law which means it openly claims to be the state of only Jews. The justice minister at the time that law was enacted said that Jews have more rights than non Jews in Israel. You don't care about any of this because you're a defender of an apartheid state because that aligns with your racist ideology. The existence of black people in the US during slavery and Jim Crow didn't prove that the US was a beacon of antiracism.
Well said!
Amazing achievement!
Well done students and the university ❤❤❤❤
Congratulations and thank you, students!
Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah ❤
Thank you so much to all the young fearless people who stood for humanity!
Thank you UC , my granddaughter is at a UC campus , and she is thrilled by this historical decision.
This is a historic moment !!
Thank you to all students that protested and stood against the occupation of Palestine and the under going genocide, your sacrifices made this possible !!
Long live Palestine !!!
Long live all the human being that standing against injustice no matter what !!
Very proud of UCR and its chancellor and students!
Super proud of all of these young adults. Thanks to University of California!!!!❤
Great news !!
Brave university. Excellent protesters peaceful protesters
Beautiful, University of California is truly for free speech and justice. It listened and it understood like a free constitution should, it is not afraid of wealthy billionaires not donating, it is not for greed but for justice. Everyone give Uni of California an applause!
There is not such thing as “ University of California”. This is one of ten schools in the system. This was UC Riverside.
Well done America stand up for whats right
It is telling that Zahir Muhse’in, member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, said the following in a 1977 interview with the Amsterdam-based newspaper Trouw. “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.”
The religion of Peace.
Bravo to the students n the Uni admin❤❤❤
So encouraging! ❤❤❤
At the UC website I have found the opposite: the university won't cut ties with Israel. Can anyone explain this?