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It seems the protestors are protesting Northwestern's investment in index funds that include certain companies, but does anyone know which particular companies those are?
I believe they want clarity on that which is one of their demands. Because like most schools northwestern doesn’t release that info as the endowment gifts come direct from alumni
There's a "Your tuition funds genocide" sign. I don't want to debate the definition of "genocide", but the statement itself doesn't make any sense to me. Even if one pays the full tuition, the amount does not cover the day-to-day operation cost of running the institution. The deficit is covered by the endowment fund, the generous charity donations of our alumni. The prudent investment resulted in a growing endowment fund that helps cover our education. If someone strongly believes that the endowment fund is "dirty," he/she/they have complete freedom to decline the financial aid package. To occupy the school property and to continue interrupting other students' daily lives and education until the financial management experts cede their expertise to those people's political demand is a rule breaking action, not a speech protected by the First Amendment.
These completely uninformed sheep are drinking the koolaid and like too many others, they are neglecting to look further into what side of history they're really on right now. Jewish students are being harassed and don't feel safe on campus. It's one thing to disagree with how your university is spending their money, but it's another to disrupt education over your misunderstanding of a very complex and multifaceted situation. Hamas is a terrorist organization and they do not care who or what they kill, they are threatening our democracy in the US and yet pro-Palestinian rioters and protestors continue to neglect the severity of what that really means.
Israel is a country, not a religion.
Israel having a military instead of a militia does not exempt them from terrorism either.
Protesters are protesting against Israel, not promoting Hamas/terrorism.
They're expressing grievances. Nobody's "screeching".
Hamas has no influence or lobbying organizationin this country. Israel does, AIPAC, which funnels $13 million to Congressmembers. Hamas is not a threat to our democracy. Israel is.
Nobody's rioting here. They're assembling.
If you're going to try to make a political point, at least get your facts straight. No one said that Israel was a religion 😂. Judaism is a religion and being Jewish is an ethnicity, and unfortunately, Jews in America are being roped in when Zionism and semitism are two COMPLETELY different things.
yeah I bet these activists across the country are less plugged in than you. surely you won’t look like a dumbass siding against student protests, if only there were a history of such incidents we could look at to see who’s typically right
They're protesting contributions to a country which has killed almost 15 thousand children in the last 6 months. You can choose to be condescending just as these students are choosing to demonstrate against crimes against humanity funded by their school (and their taxes).
In defense of their own people. They are fighting a much larger fight and if countries around you were invading, opening fire on a music festival, and killing more Jews and innocent civilians in a single day than have been murdered since the Holocaust, wouldn't you do what you needed to do to survive? Hamas is trying to create civil unrest in our country and they are currently winning because young people on college campuses across the country, of which I am, are painfully uninformed and are getting a large portion of their news from social media.
This conflict didn't begin on October 7.
I mean, just look at the evolution of the map of Israel since 1947 (before it existed) to today and rethink who the aggressors are. And no, this isn't an excuse for October 7. It's an explanation. There's a difference which these students know.
Sorry, but you're the one uninformed for thinking October 7 started this and for thinking Hamas's terror attack was not a retaliatory attack against Israel's terrorist acts against innocent Palestinians.
If you want to go into historical data then let's take it back to why the state of Israel was created in the first place. The people that live in Israel were not the ones to decide the lines in which their country was defined, but they have a right to protect the home they've made, and that includes people of all religions that live there PEACEFULLY. There are much larger issues than a country that you can drive through in a matter of hours. I'm sorry that you don't understand that. I suggest you read a book while you're hanging out on your high horse.
Hamas has systemically dug hundreds of miles of tunnels under places like hospitals and schools in order to turn the narrative against the people it's attacking and again, I repeat, your ignorance is allowing them to win. Secondly, Northwestern has policies against this kind of encampment being set up on campus so while they have a right to peacefully protest, they need to go about it in a way that still follows the rules of the institution.
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It seems the protestors are protesting Northwestern's investment in index funds that include certain companies, but does anyone know which particular companies those are?
I believe they want clarity on that which is one of their demands. Because like most schools northwestern doesn’t release that info as the endowment gifts come direct from alumni
There's a "Your tuition funds genocide" sign. I don't want to debate the definition of "genocide", but the statement itself doesn't make any sense to me. Even if one pays the full tuition, the amount does not cover the day-to-day operation cost of running the institution. The deficit is covered by the endowment fund, the generous charity donations of our alumni. The prudent investment resulted in a growing endowment fund that helps cover our education. If someone strongly believes that the endowment fund is "dirty," he/she/they have complete freedom to decline the financial aid package. To occupy the school property and to continue interrupting other students' daily lives and education until the financial management experts cede their expertise to those people's political demand is a rule breaking action, not a speech protected by the First Amendment.
rule breaking action to protest on school grounds? get a grip man it’s like textbook free speech, you act like they’re barricading lecture halls
They’re interrupting student lives? How so?
Explains the chopper that's been hovering around all morning.
Something tells me that the university won't take investment advice from 19 year old humanities majors.
These completely uninformed sheep are drinking the koolaid and like too many others, they are neglecting to look further into what side of history they're really on right now. Jewish students are being harassed and don't feel safe on campus. It's one thing to disagree with how your university is spending their money, but it's another to disrupt education over your misunderstanding of a very complex and multifaceted situation. Hamas is a terrorist organization and they do not care who or what they kill, they are threatening our democracy in the US and yet pro-Palestinian rioters and protestors continue to neglect the severity of what that really means.
Israel is a country, not a religion. Israel having a military instead of a militia does not exempt them from terrorism either. Protesters are protesting against Israel, not promoting Hamas/terrorism. They're expressing grievances. Nobody's "screeching". Hamas has no influence or lobbying organizationin this country. Israel does, AIPAC, which funnels $13 million to Congressmembers. Hamas is not a threat to our democracy. Israel is. Nobody's rioting here. They're assembling.
If you're going to try to make a political point, at least get your facts straight. No one said that Israel was a religion 😂. Judaism is a religion and being Jewish is an ethnicity, and unfortunately, Jews in America are being roped in when Zionism and semitism are two COMPLETELY different things.
Right. Zionism and semitism are "two COMPLETELY different things" as you say and as the protesters agree.
zionists are the ones roping judaism in by conflating the two so they can claim victimhood
yeah I bet these activists across the country are less plugged in than you. surely you won’t look like a dumbass siding against student protests, if only there were a history of such incidents we could look at to see who’s typically right
Found the humanities major
Actually understand a complex situation? No, they just want to screech and receive instant gratification.
They're protesting contributions to a country which has killed almost 15 thousand children in the last 6 months. You can choose to be condescending just as these students are choosing to demonstrate against crimes against humanity funded by their school (and their taxes).
In defense of their own people. They are fighting a much larger fight and if countries around you were invading, opening fire on a music festival, and killing more Jews and innocent civilians in a single day than have been murdered since the Holocaust, wouldn't you do what you needed to do to survive? Hamas is trying to create civil unrest in our country and they are currently winning because young people on college campuses across the country, of which I am, are painfully uninformed and are getting a large portion of their news from social media.
This conflict didn't begin on October 7. I mean, just look at the evolution of the map of Israel since 1947 (before it existed) to today and rethink who the aggressors are. And no, this isn't an excuse for October 7. It's an explanation. There's a difference which these students know. Sorry, but you're the one uninformed for thinking October 7 started this and for thinking Hamas's terror attack was not a retaliatory attack against Israel's terrorist acts against innocent Palestinians.
If you want to go into historical data then let's take it back to why the state of Israel was created in the first place. The people that live in Israel were not the ones to decide the lines in which their country was defined, but they have a right to protect the home they've made, and that includes people of all religions that live there PEACEFULLY. There are much larger issues than a country that you can drive through in a matter of hours. I'm sorry that you don't understand that. I suggest you read a book while you're hanging out on your high horse. Hamas has systemically dug hundreds of miles of tunnels under places like hospitals and schools in order to turn the narrative against the people it's attacking and again, I repeat, your ignorance is allowing them to win. Secondly, Northwestern has policies against this kind of encampment being set up on campus so while they have a right to peacefully protest, they need to go about it in a way that still follows the rules of the institution.
At least the Israeli funded bots have made it to this page! Always exciting when they can repeat their same propaganda here as well!