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But some liberal voters are facing an ethical dilemma – they’re disillusioned by U.S. support of Israel and may choose not to vote in November.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A law that phases in a $25 minimum wage for California’s lowest-paid health care workers was set to take effect on June 1. But as the state deals with a massive budget deficit, implementation \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986998/first-of-californias-healthcare-minimum-wage-hikes-likely-to-be-delayed\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">could be delayed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by a month, giving Governor Newsom and lawmakers more time to negotiate the projected costs to the state.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state Assembly has approved \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://a17.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240110-haney-brings-back-bill-create-amsterdam-style-cannabis-cafes-california\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a bill that would allow Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in California. These are businesses where, along with cannabis, customers could also buy food, coffee and other non-alcoholic drinks. Governor Newsom \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963827/newsom-vetoes-more-bills-including-bill-that-would-have-legalized-cannabis-cafes\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">vetoed a similar bill \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">last year. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/local-news/2024-05-21/fong-and-boudreaux-face-off-for-mccarthys-vacant-us-house-seat-in-a-special-election\">special election is being held Tuesday\u003c/a>, with the winner serving the remainder of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s term. State Assemblymember Vince Fong and Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-house-special-election-8dce30c4ece3fdcd70b9eaef1d5849f8\">,\u003c/a> both Republicans, are vying for the vacant 20th Congressional District seat in the state’s Central Valley.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992686/climate-voters-grapple-with-ethical-dilemma-in-californias-district-13-race\">\u003cb>Climate Voters Grapple With Ethical Dilemma in California’s District 13 Race\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we head into November,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/us-house/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a handful of congressional races\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in California are being closely watched, as Democrats look to regain control of the House. One of the races is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/election/article284736736.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">District 13\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which will feature a rematch between Republican Congressman John Duarte and Democrat Adam Gray. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Climate change has long been an issue that’s front and center for many voters in the Central Valley district. But this year, with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, many climate advocates are grappling with a difficult choice – vote in the election even though they don’t agree with the U.S. position on the war or abstain from voting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986998/first-of-californias-healthcare-minimum-wage-hikes-likely-to-be-delayed\">\u003cb>First Of California’s Health Care Minimum Wage Hikes Likely To Be Delayed\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A plan to gradually increase the minimum wage to $25 an hour for 500,000 health care workers in California could be delayed by a month, as the state faces \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985695/newsom-proposes-cutting-10000-vacant-state-jobs-to-help-close-27-billion-budget\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">an estimated budget deficit of $27.6 billion.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">State Sen. 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Labor unions and worker advocates have criticized that estimate, saying it’s too high.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>State Assembly Approves Bill That Would Make Amsterdam-Style Cannabis Cafes Legal \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state Assembly has \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-20/california-cannabis-cafes-assembly-vote-matt-haney-weed-marijuana\">overwhelmingly passed a bill\u003c/a> that would allow for Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes to open in California. These are businesses where, along with the cannabis, customers could buy food, coffee and other non-alcoholic drinks, as well as listen to live music.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The legislation now goes to the state Senate. Assemblymember Matt Haney authored \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://a17.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240110-haney-brings-back-bill-create-amsterdam-style-cannabis-cafes-california\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the bill.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Similar legislation was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963827/newsom-vetoes-more-bills-including-bill-that-would-have-legalized-cannabis-cafes\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last year, who cited concerns about workers being provided a smoke-free environment. 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"content": "\u003cp>Roughly 30 people protested outside the \u003ca href=\"https://hcsanfrancisco.clubs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=2000\">Harvard Club of San Francisco’s 150th anniversary event\u003c/a> on Monday evening, where former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was being honored. One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing a celebratory dinner for someone who has been an active supporter of the state of Israel of someone who has personally profiteered from the war, to me, is unconscionable,” said Harvard alumna Kate Sim, one of the two protesters who entered the event and disrupted Pelosi’s speech. Sim was ultimately escorted out but not arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sold-out event was held at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio, where Pelosi received an award for “distinguished citizen of the year.” The protesters, the majority of whom said they were alumni of Harvard, mostly remained outside the event. A few who attempted to enter the building were quietly turned away by police at the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the arrest of the one protester who entered the event with Sim, the group attempted to block the police car the protester was put into — which was eventually able to drive away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/05/20/pro-palestine-activists-protest-nancy-pelosi-at-harvard-club-event-in-sf/_m6a0340-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11987108\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11987108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"police lead away a woman in handcuffs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the Harvard Club’s 150th anniversary event. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This action comes alongside a steady stream of protests, marches, encampments and strikes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">on college campuses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">across the Bay Area\u003c/a> recently, calling on government leaders to end U.S. involvement and military aid to Israel. The protesters on Monday also responded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/harvard-university-protest-student-probation/\">Harvard’s recent decision\u003c/a> to suspend five students involved in pro-Palestine activism and place more than 20 on probation, along with stopping 14 students from receiving their degrees at commencement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/20/harvard-hoop-rally-commencement-disruptions/\">according to the Harvard Crimson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shame on Harvard and Pelosi for this senseless gala as we embark on the seventh month of the genocide,” organizers told KQED before the protest. “Pelosi has consistently aided and abetted this genocide and conflict in the region, using tax dollars that should care for our communities. If anyone should be honored, it should be those at the frontlines of Palestine resistance and the brave students and workers enacting solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students and activists allege that Harvard broke its agreement with campus demonstrators who participated in a 20-day pro-Palestine encampment at the university, led by Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP), the unrecognized pro-Palestine coalition of student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For other similar student protests, precedent is dropping charges and refraining from imposing severe consequences. This was the outcome for student organizers in the South Africa Apartheid encampment, Living Wage occupation of Mass Hall, Fossil Fuel divestment blockades and Belinda Hall occupation,” the Harvard Palestine Solidarity group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7HBv6ar2k2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “The precedent is clear: drop the charges and do not heavily discipline students for calling for disclosure and divestment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of protesters holds signs outside the Harvard Club of San Francisco’s 150th-anniversary celebration, where Nancy Pelosi was honored on Monday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sim said that in addition to calling for divestment from Israel and an immediate cease-fire, they also asked for Harvard to nullify the suspensions. She added that they’d be happy to have an “honest conversation” with Pelosi but also said they plan to continue to disrupt any Pelosi events. “Not another nickel, not another dime. We do not want our money funding this genocide,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 people in Gaza have been killed in Israel’s ground and air assaults, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, since the Oct. 7 attacks when Hamas militants killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 250 hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, protests have erupted across the Bay Area, including at several major college campuses, such as the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco and Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Christopher Alam.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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A few who attempted to enter the building were quietly turned away by police at the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the arrest of the one protester who entered the event with Sim, the group attempted to block the police car the protester was put into — which was eventually able to drive away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/05/20/pro-palestine-activists-protest-nancy-pelosi-at-harvard-club-event-in-sf/_m6a0340-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11987108\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11987108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"police lead away a woman in handcuffs\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/m6a0340-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One protester was arrested after entering and disrupting the Harvard Club’s 150th anniversary event. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This action comes alongside a steady stream of protests, marches, encampments and strikes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986812/some-bay-area-universities-reach-deal-to-end-encampments-but-students-say-their-fight-continues\">on college campuses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">across the Bay Area\u003c/a> recently, calling on government leaders to end U.S. involvement and military aid to Israel. The protesters on Monday also responded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/harvard-university-protest-student-probation/\">Harvard’s recent decision\u003c/a> to suspend five students involved in pro-Palestine activism and place more than 20 on probation, along with stopping 14 students from receiving their degrees at commencement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/20/harvard-hoop-rally-commencement-disruptions/\">according to the Harvard Crimson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shame on Harvard and Pelosi for this senseless gala as we embark on the seventh month of the genocide,” organizers told KQED before the protest. “Pelosi has consistently aided and abetted this genocide and conflict in the region, using tax dollars that should care for our communities. 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This was the outcome for student organizers in the South Africa Apartheid encampment, Living Wage occupation of Mass Hall, Fossil Fuel divestment blockades and Belinda Hall occupation,” the Harvard Palestine Solidarity group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7HBv6ar2k2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “The precedent is clear: drop the charges and do not heavily discipline students for calling for disclosure and divestment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/28A1839-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of protesters holds signs outside the Harvard Club of San Francisco’s 150th-anniversary celebration, where Nancy Pelosi was honored on Monday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sim said that in addition to calling for divestment from Israel and an immediate cease-fire, they also asked for Harvard to nullify the suspensions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Demands for UC and other universities to divest from Israel have heightened in recent weeks as pro-Palestinian encampments and protests have swept the country since last month, including at UCLA and other UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving the encampments are calls for divestment from companies doing significant business with Israel. The protesters see universities as complicit in Israel’s war in Gaza. More than 35,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including many women and children, according to health authorities. Israel’s bombardment of Gaza followed the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which killed about 1,200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s financial disclosures followed a lengthy public comment period in which many commenters called on UC to divest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to emphasize my support for the Palestinian encampment students and faculty and to strongly support their call for divestment from all investments in the military-industrial complex,” said Darlene Lee, a faculty member in UCLA’s teacher education program and a UCLA alum. “Educational funds should go towards education and community and not war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/uc-has-32-billion-in-assets-targeted-by-pro-palestinian-protesters-but-no-plans-to-divest/711864\">This story was first published on EdSource\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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End the siege on Gaza now.” The attendees of the conference were redirected to another entrance down the street as the protest continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of the protest is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969898/protesters-outside-google-in-san-francisco-call-for-immediate-end-to-project-nimbus\">Project Nimbus\u003c/a>, a $1.2 billion cloud computing and artificial intelligence contract between Google, Amazon and Israel, which Google has previously claimed is not supporting Israel’s weapons or intelligence operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, protesters point to recent \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/\">media reports\u003c/a> indicating Israel’s military does make wide use of Google’s technologies and that the company has sought to extend its contracts with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roni Zeiger of Mountain View is a doctor and tech worker who came out to protest against his former employer. Zeiger worked at Google from 2006 to 2012 on projects that aimed to use the company’s technology to improve public health, a goal he said he still supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what’s happening today is exactly the opposite of that. Google’s technologies, along with Amazon’s, as part of Project Nimbus, are being used to actively harm people in Palestine, and I don’t think that’s okay,” Zeiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstrations are the latest in a string of actions demanding Google and other tech companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985580/divestment-from-israeli-tech-is-a-tall-order-for-silicon-valley-heres-why\">end ties with Israel altogether\u003c/a>. In April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145680/google-workers-fired-project-nimbus-protest-nlrb-complaint\">the company fired about 50 employees\u003c/a> who were said to be involved in sit-ins that violated its internal policies and disrupted operations at offices in New York and Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeiger said he also felt motivated to demonstrate in recognition of Google employees fired after taking part in those protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-Google-Protest-JG-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986144\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-Google-Protest-JG-03.jpg\" alt='Several people hold up a blue banner with a Google icon over an eye that reads \"No Tech for Apartheid.\" ' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-Google-Protest-JG-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-Google-Protest-JG-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-Google-Protest-JG-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-Google-Protest-JG-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-Google-Protest-JG-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240514-Google-Protest-JG-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hold up a banner that reads “No Tech for Apartheid” during a protest outside Google’s Gradient Canopy building in Mountain View on May 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a responsibility for each other and all the things that we’re inventing together to make sure that we are using them for good,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google and Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariel Koren, a former Google employee who worked in marketing, and who participated in Tuesday’s protest, said she was ousted after speaking out against Project Nimbus in 2022. She said the company told her the role she was being moved to Brazil and gave her less than a month to go or be terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was ousted from the company, they were trying to be subtle about it,” Koren said. “Now they are so desperate that they are not even trying to be sneaky. And the reason they’re doing that is because they are realizing that the chilling effect that they’re trying to create across the industry and across their workforce is not working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wassim Hage, a spokesperson for the Arab Resource Organizing Center, said actions like Tuesday’s demonstrations fit into the larger context of organized labor, working people, and students around the country pushing back against militarization and what he called Israeli apartheid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mass popular support from people of all walks of life for all these folks taking action at their institutions, at their places of work, I think it has tremendous possibility to make big impacts over the course of years,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Before that, it was Project Dragonfly, a proposed version of Google Search that would allow the Chinese government to censor and monitor users within China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google continues to work with the U.S. government, the Israeli government and others worldwide — as many other Silicon Valley companies do — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C47EqBEMaeb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">Meta\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/apples4ceasefire/\">Apple\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is broader divestment from Israeli tech possible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some protesters aligned with the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, the goal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-e-u-vs-b-d-s-the-politics-of-israel-sanctions\">not just canceling military contracts\u003c/a> but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">divestment from Israel altogether\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to many who are familiar with the tech sector, that’s a tall order. The relationship between Silicon Valley and Israeli tech spans various categories: ag tech, biotech, green tech, cybersecurity, semiconductors and so on. Economists say the economic love affair extends back to the 1970s but took off in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are going to continue using everyday items like an Android or iPhone, a television screen, a computer chip, these are indispensable technologies created in Israel,” said Aaron Kaplowitz, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usisrael.co\">United States — Israel Business Alliance\u003c/a>, and a Miami-based venture capitalist who invests in Israeli tech startups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the business alliance, California now serves as the global or U.S. headquarters for 35 Israeli-founded “unicorns” — privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. 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NVIDIA has recently announced plans to buy \u003ca href=\"https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-nvidias-israel-ai-spending-spree-has-downside-1001477627\">two more Israeli companies\u003c/a> focused on AI.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Intel bought autonomous driving company Mobileye for $15 billion in 2017.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Tech for Apartheid protesters in Sunnyvale occupied an office used by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in April 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of No Tech for Apartheid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of U.S. companies run offices and manufacturing facilities in Israel, too. \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-790725\">Intel\u003c/a>, with 11,700 employees in Israel, is the country’s largest private employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So Israel wouldn’t be ‘startup nation’ without Silicon Valley, but by the same token, it’s hard to imagine Silicon Valley without Israel, and that’s because of what’s going on in Israel, not despite what’s going on in Israel,” Horowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple generations of Israeli tech workers have learned their trade and people skills in the military, which has been engaged in conflicts with Palestinians and others in the region since Israel was founded in 1948. 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But Horowitz said divestment is likely to be a non-starter with Silicon Valley leaders because they’re primarily motivated by profit — not geopolitics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not a new phenomenon or one specific to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, the San José-based research outfit, said Silicon Valley companies have a long history of cultivating military contracts, initially with the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the ’60s and ’70s, Silicon Valley was built by defense spending because we were locked in a Cold War, engaged in a space race, and waging a battle in East Asia and Vietnam,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the industry has \u003ca href=\"https://www.tni.org/files/2023-04/Militarising%20%20Big%20Tech.pdf\">expanded to pursue military contracts\u003c/a> with governments all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets to the age-old question: Is the technology good or bad? And the answer is: Yes. 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The relationship between Silicon Valley and Israeli tech spans various categories: ag tech, biotech, green tech, cybersecurity, semiconductors and so on. Economists say the economic love affair extends back to the 1970s but took off in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are going to continue using everyday items like an Android or iPhone, a television screen, a computer chip, these are indispensable technologies created in Israel,” said Aaron Kaplowitz, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usisrael.co\">United States — Israel Business Alliance\u003c/a>, and a Miami-based venture capitalist who invests in Israeli tech startups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the business alliance, California now serves as the global or U.S. headquarters for 35 Israeli-founded “unicorns” — privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. 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It’s even an \u003ca href=\"https://innovationisrael.org.il/en/report/how-many-israelis-really-work-in-high-tech/#:~:text=there%20were%20508%2C400%20salaried%20employees,a%20significant%20increase%20of%2032%25.\">ideal\u003c/a> for Israel, right?” said Guy Horowitz, an Israeli venture capitalist who has lived in Palo Alto for six years. “Combining talent with technology and money, I think it’s the very basis of the Israel ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/ca-israel\">startup nation\u003c/a>’ ethos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Deals, deals, deals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley giants have spent a lot of money buying Israeli startups in recent years, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The satellite navigation software company Waze, which Google bought for $1.3 billion in 2013.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The computer networking company Mellanox, which Santa Clara-based NVIDIA bought for roughly $7 billion in 2019. NVIDIA has recently announced plans to buy \u003ca href=\"https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-nvidias-israel-ai-spending-spree-has-downside-1001477627\">two more Israeli companies\u003c/a> focused on AI.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Intel bought autonomous driving company Mobileye for $15 billion in 2017.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/NO-TECH-FOR-APARTHEID-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Tech for Apartheid protesters in Sunnyvale occupied an office used by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in April 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of No Tech for Apartheid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of U.S. companies run offices and manufacturing facilities in Israel, too. \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-790725\">Intel\u003c/a>, with 11,700 employees in Israel, is the country’s largest private employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So Israel wouldn’t be ‘startup nation’ without Silicon Valley, but by the same token, it’s hard to imagine Silicon Valley without Israel, and that’s because of what’s going on in Israel, not despite what’s going on in Israel,” Horowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple generations of Israeli tech workers have learned their trade and people skills in the military, which has been engaged in conflicts with Palestinians and others in the region since Israel was founded in 1948. 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"content": "\u003cp>The head of Berkeley public schools firmly denied accusations that antisemitism has become “pervasive” in her district, telling a congressional panel on Wednesday that any alleged incidents of discrimination were being proactively addressed through education, restorative justice and, when necessary, discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take action to teach, correct and redirect our students,” Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel told members of a House Education and Workforce subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford Morthel testified in Washington, D.C., alongside the leaders of the New York City Public Schools and the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland as part of a series of Republican-led hearings on antisemitism. The first such congressional hearing to focus on K-12 education, it comes amid a wave of pro-Palestinian student protests taking place at dozens of U.S. universities and a growing number of middle and high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tense hearing follows a series of similar inquiries into antisemitism on university campuses, the first of which, in December, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ivy-league-presidents-backlash-women-021ec60af6a5a5279c644376de065738\">contributed to the resignations\u003c/a> of the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/business/takeaways-columbia-antisemitism-hearing/index.html\">testimony of Columbia University’s president\u003c/a> last month precipitated weeks of escalated student protests that spread well beyond her campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an opening statement on Wednesday, Rep. 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We are mindful that all kids make mistakes,” she said. “We know that our staff are not immune to missteps either, and we don’t ignore them when they occur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240508-BERKELEY-HIGH-FILE-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240508-BERKELEY-HIGH-FILE-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240508-BERKELEY-HIGH-FILE-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240508-BERKELEY-HIGH-FILE-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240508-BERKELEY-HIGH-FILE-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240508-BERKELEY-HIGH-FILE-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240508-BERKELEY-HIGH-FILE-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School in Berkeley on May 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985234/berkeley-schools-chief-set-to-testify-at-congressional-hearing-on-antisemitism\">Berkeley’s progressive school district\u003c/a> came to the attention of conservative lawmakers in February when the Louis D. 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It also sued the University of California and UC Berkeley officials in November \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-01/lawsuit-accuses-uc-berkeley-of-fostering-anti-semitism-dean-calls-accusations-inaccurate\">over allegations of antisemitism on campus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Office for Civil Rights announced it had opened a formal investigation into the Berkeley complaint — consistent with its ongoing investigations of similar complaints at New York City and Montgomery Public Schools. The cases center on whether the districts responded to harassment of students in a manner consistent with Title VI, which prevents harassment based on shared ancestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, Berkeley Unified has received complaints of antisemitism arising from nine incidents, said Ford Morthel, who has led the district for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not publish our actions because student information is private and legally protected under federal and state law,” she said. “As a result, some believe we do nothing. This is not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing a tactic from the previous hearings, Republican lawmakers peppered the school leaders with questions about what they consider antisemitic. 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Every student deserves to be in schools that are nurturing, responsive, and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three districts, in predominantly liberal areas, have diverse student populations and a sizable Jewish American community. All three have also seen student-led pro-Palestinian protests. The demonstrations, including several at Berkeley High and some middle schools in the district, have included walkouts during school hours, in which students have chanted certain phrases — including “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” — that can mean widely \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/river-sea-israel-gaza-hamas-protests-d7abbd756f481fe50b6fa5c0b907cd49\">different things\u003c/a> to different people, and that some argue, cross the line into antisemitism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the hearing, Republicans demanded tougher consequences for teachers and principals accused of antisemitism. 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Classrooms have more lessons on the Jewish experience, and the district will now require “hate-based training” for all staff, she said, adding that teachers who don’t provide a safe learning environment “will not remain in Montgomery County public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me be clear — we do not shy away from imposing consequences for hateful behavior, including antisemitism,” Silvestre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressed on firings and suspensions, Silvestre said Montgomery County has taken “disciplinary action” against some teachers, but none has been fired. 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The first such congressional hearing to focus on K-12 education, it comes amid a wave of pro-Palestinian student protests taking place at dozens of U.S. universities and a growing number of middle and high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tense hearing follows a series of similar inquiries into antisemitism on university campuses, the first of which, in December, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ivy-league-presidents-backlash-women-021ec60af6a5a5279c644376de065738\">contributed to the resignations\u003c/a> of the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/business/takeaways-columbia-antisemitism-hearing/index.html\">testimony of Columbia University’s president\u003c/a> last month precipitated weeks of escalated student protests that spread well beyond her campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an opening statement on Wednesday, Rep. 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It also sued the University of California and UC Berkeley officials in November \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-01/lawsuit-accuses-uc-berkeley-of-fostering-anti-semitism-dean-calls-accusations-inaccurate\">over allegations of antisemitism on campus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Office for Civil Rights announced it had opened a formal investigation into the Berkeley complaint — consistent with its ongoing investigations of similar complaints at New York City and Montgomery Public Schools. The cases center on whether the districts responded to harassment of students in a manner consistent with Title VI, which prevents harassment based on shared ancestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, Berkeley Unified has received complaints of antisemitism arising from nine incidents, said Ford Morthel, who has led the district for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not publish our actions because student information is private and legally protected under federal and state law,” she said. “As a result, some believe we do nothing. This is not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing a tactic from the previous hearings, Republican lawmakers peppered the school leaders with questions about what they consider antisemitic. 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"content": "\u003cp>Amid a wave of student protests that has spurred attacks and arrests on other California campuses, San Francisco State University’s top administrator met publicly with pro-Palestinian student protesters for the first time Monday to discuss their demands as news spread of a cease-fire proposal in the Gaza Strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “moderated, open negotiations session” between President Lynn Mahoney and representatives of the SFSU Students for Palestine Encampment is believed to be one of the first of its kind, student organizers said. It came as Israel launched strikes in Rafah after saying the terms of a cease-fire deal agreed to by Hamas were not acceptable, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249360882/israel-hamas-cease-fire\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">NPR reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the cease-fire is true and it happens and, you know, there’s a free Palestine – because that’s what we’re reaching towards – of course we’re going to be relieved and we’re going to be happy, but at the same time we lost a lot,” said Monia Alsena, 22, who graduated from SFSU last year and attended Monday in support of the protest encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish it was a permanent cease-fire,” said her friend Nermeen Elsaghir, 23, who is graduating this month and has family in the West Bank. “I wish it was freedom for Palestinians, for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Elsaghir said she is “not very hopeful about having any kind of victory soon for Palestinians or a cease-fire. We’re helpless, and our leaders, especially Arab leaders, they’re not doing anything. It’s very sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how I’m hopeful,” she said. “I’m not.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gaza health officials, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, which Israel launched after Hamas militants killed around 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostage in a wave of attacks Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since April 29, a group called Students for Gaza has camped on a central lawn at SFSU to demand the California State University system disclose its financial ties to Israel and to divest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students also rejected what they called Islamophobic censorship of speech and activism on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11985155 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-57-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFSU community member speaks as President Lynn Mahoney listens outside of the César Chavez Student Center on campus on May 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Monday’s public meeting with student representatives at the university’s Malcolm X Plaza, Mahoney said she would take steps to increase transparency around where the endowment money is invested and to “take another look at that investment policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me just say you’ve all been heard,” Mahoney said. “You have been heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atzeli Ramirez praised Mahoney for being willing to negotiate with student protesters publicly, but she felt Mahoney didn’t go far enough in meeting their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like President Lynn Mahoney was trying to save face rather than negotiate,” Ramirez, 21, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amey Kulkarni is a media liaison for the protesters. Kulkarni has stayed in the encampment intermittently over the last week. He was upset that Mahoney declined to declare the war in Gaza a genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something we’ve been explicit about from day one,” Kulkarni, 25, said. “Me as well as so many others in this camp do not want to normalize this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='gaza']In 2020, the SFSU student government passed a resolution requesting a university boycott and divestment from Israel, but Mahoney refused to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school administration’s agreement to publicly negotiate with protesters this week, however, is starkly different from the approach of leadership at some other campuses. Nationally, more than 2,000 students have been arrested in protests against the war as of last week, according to the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters in a parking structure at UCLA on Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-06/dozens-detained-at-ucla-early-monday\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">the Los Angeles Times reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, days after officers cleared the encampment there and arrested more than 200 people. Early Sunday, a student encampment at the University of Southern California disbanded after Los Angeles Police Department officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pro-palestinian-encampment-at-usc-dismantled-after-protestors-comply-with-order-to-leave\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">threatened to arrest the students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. There were at least 14 pro-Palestinian encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">on college campuses in California\u003c/span>\u003c/a> as of last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the country, Harvard warned students Monday that protesters would be placed on involuntary leave from school, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/university-protests-pro-palestinian-israel-05-06-24/index.html\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according to CNN\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240506-SFSUPresident-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large crowd assembled outside the SFSU Cesar Chavez Student Center meets with SFSU President Lynn Mahoney on May 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all university leaders have responded to encampments with police. Sacramento State University President Luke Woods \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">gave approval for the campus’ pro-Palestinian encampment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> late last month, and \u003c/span>UC Riverside pro-Palestinian student protesters voluntarily ended their encampment last week after reaching an agreement with university leadership to explore divestment from Israel, \u003ca href=\"https://riversiderecord.org/student-protesters-ucr-administration-reach-agreement-to-end-encampment/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according to the Riverside Record\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFSU has faced a decades-long challenge in responding to demands of its students around the Israeli-Palestinian\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>conflict. Former SFSU President Leslie Wong drew criticism from students and faculty for an email he sent in 2018 saying “Zionists are welcome on our campus,” \u003ca href=\"https://goldengatexpress.org/81119/latest/news/president-wong-fails-to-unify/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according to the Golden Gate Express\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, the campus newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amid a wave of student protests that has spurred attacks and arrests on other California campuses, San Francisco State University’s top administrator met publicly with pro-Palestinian student protesters for the first time Monday to discuss their demands as news spread of a cease-fire proposal in the Gaza Strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “moderated, open negotiations session” between President Lynn Mahoney and representatives of the SFSU Students for Palestine Encampment is believed to be one of the first of its kind, student organizers said. It came as Israel launched strikes in Rafah after saying the terms of a cease-fire deal agreed to by Hamas were not acceptable, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249360882/israel-hamas-cease-fire\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">NPR reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the cease-fire is true and it happens and, you know, there’s a free Palestine – because that’s what we’re reaching towards – of course we’re going to be relieved and we’re going to be happy, but at the same time we lost a lot,” said Monia Alsena, 22, who graduated from SFSU last year and attended Monday in support of the protest encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish it was a permanent cease-fire,” said her friend Nermeen Elsaghir, 23, who is graduating this month and has family in the West Bank. “I wish it was freedom for Palestinians, for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Elsaghir said she is “not very hopeful about having any kind of victory soon for Palestinians or a cease-fire. We’re helpless, and our leaders, especially Arab leaders, they’re not doing anything. It’s very sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how I’m hopeful,” she said. “I’m not.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Just weeks before summer break, as most students are wrapping up their semesters or preparing for graduation, pro-Palestinian protests and encampments have sprung up on scores of college campuses across California — as they have throughout the country. While most protests have remained peaceful, a handful of campuses around the state have been rocked in recent days by sweeping law enforcement crackdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampments have been part of a movement that has spread quickly across the country following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245642588/nypd-breaks-up-pro-palestinian-protest-at-columbia-university\">New York Police Department’s \u003c/a>first attempted crackdown, in mid-April, of a student demonstration at Columbia University in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we really are at a moment that feels historic in a way that student organizing hasn’t in quite a few years,” Angus Johnston, a historian and advocate of American student movements, said earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\">on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “It really was not until Columbia’s crackdown that we saw this explosion of defiance on campuses, whose number is increasing every single day at this point. That is a pace of acceleration that we haven’t seen in a very, very long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Why are students protesting?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#B\">Where are the protests happening?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#C\">What do protesters want universities to divest from?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">How are colleges responding to the protests?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">Have there been previous divestment campaigns?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Why are students protesting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While specific goals vary by campus, Johnston said there have been four general demands that student protesters across the country have made of their academic institutions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Divest from all financial holdings — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984140/growing-protests-over-the-israel-hamas-war-puts-spotlight-on-college-endowments\">often through their endowments\u003c/a> — in companies that have ties to Israel or contribute to Israel’s military.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Institute an academic boycott of Israel, including ending all research with Israeli universities that have military ties and canceling studying abroad programs in the country.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increase transparency about its involvement and connection — financial or academic — to the Israeli military and other institutions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offer amnesty to student protesters who have been arrested or received academic discipline.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Malak Afaneh, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982697/confrontation-at-uc-berkeley-law-school-deans-home-highlights-campus-tensions\">a third-year UC Berkeley law student \u003c/a>and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\"> co-president of Law Students for Justice in Palestine\u003c/a>, told \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that protesters also want the university to officially acknowledge the situation “in Palestine \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-expert-says-israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-calls-arms-embargo-2024-03-26/\">as a genocide\u003c/a> because they’ve failed to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11984645 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240423-BERKELEY-GAZA-ENCAMPMENT-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Israel’s siege of Gaza has been raging for nearly seven months. Israeli forces have killed over 34,000 Palestinians in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Gazan and Israeli authorities, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s attacks have displaced some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-30-2024-f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a#:~:text=The%20war%20in%20Gaza%20has,to%20the%20brink%20of%20famine.\">80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million\u003c/a> residents, and the United Nations has rung the alarm about \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-chief-says-incremental-progress-toward-averting-gaza-famine-2024-04-30/\">a possible famine in the northern part of the enclave\u003c/a>. The Biden administration has mostly been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/world/middleeast/israel-us-aid.html\">unwavering in its support of Israel\u003c/a>. Although Biden has more recently demanded that Israel implement new steps to protect civilians and aid workers — and urged its leaders to seek a cease-fire agreement — he has also consistently supported efforts to continue sending huge amounts of military aid to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">\u003cem>Follow KQED’s coverage of the war\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, and read about the history of the decades-long conflict in NPR’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">\u003cem>‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Where are the protests happening?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of May 2, there are at least 14 pro-Palestinian encampments on college campuses throughout California. They include multiple campuses in the Bay Area, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">Stanford University\u003c/a>, UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pro-Palestinian protests on California college campuses\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-BxKrr\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/BxKrr/17/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"650\" height=\"845\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most encampments have been established in central campus locations. At UC Berkeley’s encampment, which began last week, there are now nearly 100 tents — occupied by students, alums and faculty — sprawled in front of Sproul Hall, a center of student life on campus. (Some campuses have also seen counterprotests by supporters of Israel, such as a recent demonstration at UCLA that received \u003ca href=\"https://dailybruin.com/2024/04/27/counter-protests-of-ucla-encampment-raise-over-50000-on-gofundme\">thousands of dollars of support on GoFundMe\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pro-Palestinian student protests have largely been peaceful, noted Johnston, the historian, adding that some people inaccurately view the student protesters of the 1960s as more “disciplined” than their counterparts today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that in terms of tactics, the students of 2024 are much more restrained than \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp8w8\">the students of 1968, ’69, ’70,”\u003c/a> Johnston said. “They haven’t been engaging in battles with police. We’ve seen only a few building takeovers. We’ve seen very little property destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>What do protesters want universities to divest from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Afaneh explained that divestment should include “any of the university’s endowments, any of their partnerships, that are in partnership with institutions complicit in this genocide — whether it be weapons, arms manufacturers, and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for divestment from companies linked to Israel — a key strategy in the global \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">Boycott, Divest, Sanction\u003c/a> (BDS) movement — is nothing new among student activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate\">fighting for the rights of Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University student Zinaib I. speaks at a rally outside the student center on April 30. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, UC Berkeley’s student government passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/archives/uc-student-association-votes-to-divest-from-companies-allegedly-violating-palestinian-rights/article_c2874bba-98af-5771-b3a2-4c92c5ba6271.html\">a resolution calling for similar divestment actions in 2015\u003c/a>. The prevalence of such activism has even led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/04/28/an-obscure-california-law-may-prevent-action-on-protesters-calls-for-divestment-from-israel/#:~:text=The%20law%20forbids%20the%20award,known%20by%20the%20acronym%20BDS.\">anti-boycott laws\u003c/a> in California and other states — legislation condemned\u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses\"> by Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> — that has \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2018/11/22/israel-boycott-canary-mission-blacklist/\">landed some students on blacklists\u003c/a>, potentially affecting their future employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the main companies activists have targeted include \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/archives/uc-student-association-votes-to-divest-from-companies-allegedly-violating-palestinian-rights/article_c2874bba-98af-5771-b3a2-4c92c5ba6271.html\">General Electric, Boeing, Caterpillar, Google and Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, all of which, they say, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnestyusa.org/no-weapons-for-war-crimes/\">profiteer from Israel’s war crimes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johnston, the Vietnam War student protests revealed “a web of relationships between universities, the government, the national security state, the military-industrial complex. [And] when those relationships were revealed, the pressure to draw them back became intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yousuf Abubakr, a UC Berkeley student studying mechanical engineering, said big \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-block-entrances-to-lockheed-martin-facility-in-sunnyvale/\">defense contractors like Lockheed Martin\u003c/a> and Boeing often attend engineering career fairs on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’d be great to get engineering students more aware of the companies and their position in this genocide and ethnic cleansing,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>How are colleges responding to the protests?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Reactions from colleges have varied significantly across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UCLA \u003c/strong>declared its pro-Palestinian encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful\">“unlawful”\u003c/a> Tuesday evening, saying students face possible suspension or expulsion, with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pplscitycouncil/status/1785203795645063207?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">videos showing police in riot gear on campus\u003c/a>. On April 30, UCLA’s independent student newspaper reported that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dailybruin/status/1785549519989735509?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">pro-Israel supporters were tearing down pro-Palestinian encampment\u003c/a> barricades, clashing with protesters and allegedly setting off fireworks. The \u003cem>LA Times \u003c/em>reported that security guards \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful\">watching the scene did not intervene\u003c/a>. Classes were \u003ca href=\"https://bso.ucla.edu/\">canceled the next day\u003c/a> and UC President Michael V. Drake ordered an independent review of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/la-me-ucla-camp-police\">more than 200 protesters were arrested\u003c/a> as police in riot gear clashed with them and dismantled the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>UC Riverside\u003c/strong> on Friday, pro-Palestinian student protesters said they had reached an agreement with university leaders and \u003ca href=\"https://riversiderecord.org/student-protesters-ucr-administration-reach-agreement-to-end-encampment/\">announced their encampment would be coming down\u003c/a>. As part of the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.ucr.edu/chancellor/May_3_ammended-agreement.pdf\">agreement, signed by its chancellor\u003c/a>, UC Riverside pledged to form a task force of students and faculty to explore the potential removal of the university’s endowment from the UC Investment Office’s management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>Cal Poly Humboldt\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/cal-poly-humboldt\">students last week took over an administrative building\u003c/a>. On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/cal-poly-humboldt-police-declare-demonstration-19429921.php\">some 300 officers in riot gear arrested 35 protesters\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/E__C___/status/1785353134828839383\">an assistant professor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/nyregion/california-poly-humboldt-protests-arrests.html\">ending the building takeover\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At\u003cstrong> Stanford University\u003c/strong>, officials have repeatedly warned student protesters in encampments that they are violating campus policies and may face suspension. The school \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2024/04/30/stanford-forwards-encampment-photo-to-fbi/\">also recently sent a photo to the FBI\u003c/a> of an unidentified person at the encampment with a green headband resembling those worn by Hamas, according to \u003cem>The Stanford Daily\u003c/em>, the school’s independent student newspaper\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cstrong>University of Southern California \u003c/strong>made headlines in mid-April when the administration announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/us/usc-cancels-outside-speakers-2024-commencement/index.html#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20Southern%20California%20announced%20it's%20calling%20off%20appearances,what%20it%20called%20security%20concerns.\">it was canceling the commencement speech\u003c/a> of its Muslim valediction — who has previously expressed pro-Palestinian views — citing safety concerns. Following the Columbia protests, a large group of students set up a campus encampment last week. On April 24, social media \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/lapd-marches-towards-usc-protesters-209660485756\">videos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/pro-palestinian-demonstrators-usc-campus-israel-hamas-protest#how-effective-is-this-form-of-protest\">news coverage\u003c/a> showing the Los Angeles Police Department marching toward campus and arresting \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-24/usc-pro-palestinian-encampment\">nearly a hundred students\u003c/a> drew national attention. On April 25, the school announced it was\u003ca href=\"https://commencement.usc.edu/2024/04/25/commencement-update-april-25-2024/\"> canceling its main graduation ceremony\u003c/a>. Earlier this week, the university’s president met with pro-Palestine students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools in California where protests are happening, however, have so far allowed them to proceed without disruption as long as they are conducted peacefully. \u003cstrong>SFSU\u003c/strong> spokesperson Kent Bravo said the school has long honored the right of community members to peacefully protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">“while preserving a safe campus environment.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sacramento State\u003c/strong> President Luke Woods extended approval for the pro-Palestinian encampment on that school’s campus. “Our job is not to squash free speech,” Wood said, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thestatehornet/status/1785473239214669939?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">student newspaper, \u003cem>The State Hornet, reported \u003c/em>on X\u003c/a>. “Our job is to protect safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irvine Mayor Farrah N. Khan took preemptive action and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bencamach0/status/1785056654444404887?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">released a statement\u003c/a> asking the city’s police to “stand down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not tolerate any violence to students’ rights to peacefully assemble and protest,” Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>UC Berkeley’s \u003c/strong>growing encampment, there has so far been virtually no police intervention, which is in sharp contrast to what’s transpired at UCLA. Dan Mogulof, an administration spokesperson, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the University of California changed its policy on responding to “non-violent political protests” after \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2021/11/18/10-years-later-uc-davis-implements-change-following-pepper-spraying-incident/\">the 2012 Occupy Wall Street movement, during which an officer pepper-sprayed a group of UC Davis protesters\u003c/a>. The new policy, he said, stipulates that school officials should no longer call in law enforcement preemptively but only “when there’s a clear, imminent threat to the campus, to life safety and to the safety of the campus community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11984625 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/20240501_MAYDAYRALLY-27-GC-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“What we’re seeing around the country, bringing in law enforcement can have unintended consequences and can make the matter worse,” Mogulof said. “But there’s another level. We must, at the same time, be prepared to respond to individual or isolated incidents of alleged criminal behavior, harassment, or discrimination.” (He added that police are investigating an alleged incident in which a Jewish law student, who was also interviewed on the \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> show, said he was punched while filming at a pro-Palestinian rally.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, according to the \u003cem>Daily Cal, \u003c/em>Berkeley’s independent student newspaper, the university’s administration had \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/featured/uc-berkeley-administration-begins-negotiations-with-free-palestine-encampment/article_3da3ceee-082c-11ef-96a5-5750ec0f7ab4.html\">“begun negotiations”\u003c/a> with the encampment protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, UC President Michael V. Drake said in a statement on Tuesday, “The University of California campuses will work with students, faculty and staff to make space available and do all we can to protect these protests and demonstrations.” But he added that “Disruptive unlawful protests that violate the rights of our fellow citizens are unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003cem>LA Times\u003c/em>, Drake did not specify what behavior he found disruptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that one of the things that’s really distinctive about this moment is that — [and] it has been true for quite a while — that student dissent and student protest around the issue of Israel and Palestine has been more likely to be met with suppressive tactics from administrators and police, than a lot of other kinds of protest,” added Johnston, the historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few schools have met with student protesters to discuss divestment options so far. Some have said their investments mainly consist of large mutual funds rather than holdings in individual companies, which they say \u003ca href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/calls-to-divest-from-israel-part-of-campus-protests-thats-not-easy-to-do-experts-say/4FBKI3MFFVBY3K65FYNLDRLD4A/\">makes divestment decisions far more complicated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University wrote in an email to KQED that the school’s board makes divestment decisions of trustees. “In 2015, the Board declined a proposal to divest of certain companies doing business in Israel,” it said. “The Board has not received another formal divestment petition on this subject, and its 2015 decision remains in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto on April 25, calling for the university to divest from Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>Have there been previous divestment campaigns?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Divestment campaigns have been pursued for decades by activists fighting for various human rights and environmental causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “not unusual at all for that to be a strategy that goes on for decades before winning full fruition,” Johnston said. For example, climate activists have long pushed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/29/apartheid-to-fossil-fuels-columbias-history-of-divestment-before-gaza\">universities to divest from fossil fuel companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2006/03/101734/uc-regents-vote-divest-companies-business-ties-sudanese-government\">the University of California Board of Regents voted to divest\u003c/a> “from several companies involved in significant business activities that provide revenue to the Sudanese government to continue acts of genocide in Darfur” — an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-me-ucsudan9-story.html\">outcome largely credited to student protesters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California has taken a principled stand against the tragedy in Sudan by severing its financial connections from those nine companies who aid the genocide and by lending its voice to those calling for peace in the region,” Gerald L. Parsky, chairman of the board, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2006/03/101734/uc-regents-vote-divest-companies-business-ties-sudanese-government\">at the time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And perhaps most famously — and drawing the clearest parallels to today’s protests — are the anti-apartheid protests of the mid-1980s, when activists demanded universities and other institutions divest from companies that did business with South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Africa’s apartheid was \u003ca href=\"https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/apartheid\">an institutional system under an all-white government that enforced racial segregation\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://au.int/en/auhrm-project-focus-area-apartheid\">almost all aspects of life\u003c/a>, a racist system \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate\">that some human rights groups\u003c/a> say mirrors Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11984403,news_11984203,news_11830384\"]In 1985, after the University of California initially refused to divest from companies that did business with South Africa, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201312110735/thank-you-mr-mandela\">students at UC Berkeley and other campuses \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/managing-protest\">protested for six weeks\u003c/a>, staging sit-ins, camp-outs, and teach-ins about the apartheid regime. During this time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/managing-protest\">hundreds of students were detained by police\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/30/1248088063/divest-divestment-university-college-protesters-campus-israel-gaza-invasion\">The pressure campaign\u003c/a> prompted \u003ca href=\"https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/managing-protest\">the University of California \u003c/a>the following year to reverse course and dump some $3 billion of its investments in companies linked to South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnston, the historian, noted that, contrary to popular belief, the anti-apartheid movement didn’t suddenly emerge in the 1980s. Although that’s when it came to a head, he said, the movement actually began in the 1950s and had been building momentum for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other thing that I think is really important to remember is — as somebody who was on campus in the late 1980s — very few of us expected the kinds of changes that we saw in South Africa to happen as quickly as they did,” Johnston added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The transition of the South African country from apartheid to a multiracial democracy,” he said, “is one that happened in no small part as a result of economic, political and cultural pressure from outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sarah Hossaini, Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, Matthew Green, and Alexis Madrigal contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Just weeks before summer break, as most students are wrapping up their semesters or preparing for graduation, pro-Palestinian protests and encampments have sprung up on scores of college campuses across California — as they have throughout the country. While most protests have remained peaceful, a handful of campuses around the state have been rocked in recent days by sweeping law enforcement crackdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampments have been part of a movement that has spread quickly across the country following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245642588/nypd-breaks-up-pro-palestinian-protest-at-columbia-university\">New York Police Department’s \u003c/a>first attempted crackdown, in mid-April, of a student demonstration at Columbia University in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that we really are at a moment that feels historic in a way that student organizing hasn’t in quite a few years,” Angus Johnston, a historian and advocate of American student movements, said earlier this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\">on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “It really was not until Columbia’s crackdown that we saw this explosion of defiance on campuses, whose number is increasing every single day at this point. That is a pace of acceleration that we haven’t seen in a very, very long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Why are students protesting?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#B\">Where are the protests happening?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#C\">What do protesters want universities to divest from?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">How are colleges responding to the protests?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">Have there been previous divestment campaigns?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Why are students protesting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While specific goals vary by campus, Johnston said there have been four general demands that student protesters across the country have made of their academic institutions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Divest from all financial holdings — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984140/growing-protests-over-the-israel-hamas-war-puts-spotlight-on-college-endowments\">often through their endowments\u003c/a> — in companies that have ties to Israel or contribute to Israel’s military.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Institute an academic boycott of Israel, including ending all research with Israeli universities that have military ties and canceling studying abroad programs in the country.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increase transparency about its involvement and connection — financial or academic — to the Israeli military and other institutions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offer amnesty to student protesters who have been arrested or received academic discipline.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Malak Afaneh, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982697/confrontation-at-uc-berkeley-law-school-deans-home-highlights-campus-tensions\">a third-year UC Berkeley law student \u003c/a>and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\"> co-president of Law Students for Justice in Palestine\u003c/a>, told \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that protesters also want the university to officially acknowledge the situation “in Palestine \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-expert-says-israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-calls-arms-embargo-2024-03-26/\">as a genocide\u003c/a> because they’ve failed to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Israel’s siege of Gaza has been raging for nearly seven months. Israeli forces have killed over 34,000 Palestinians in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Gazan and Israeli authorities, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s attacks have displaced some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-30-2024-f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a#:~:text=The%20war%20in%20Gaza%20has,to%20the%20brink%20of%20famine.\">80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million\u003c/a> residents, and the United Nations has rung the alarm about \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-chief-says-incremental-progress-toward-averting-gaza-famine-2024-04-30/\">a possible famine in the northern part of the enclave\u003c/a>. The Biden administration has mostly been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/world/middleeast/israel-us-aid.html\">unwavering in its support of Israel\u003c/a>. Although Biden has more recently demanded that Israel implement new steps to protect civilians and aid workers — and urged its leaders to seek a cease-fire agreement — he has also consistently supported efforts to continue sending huge amounts of military aid to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">\u003cem>Follow KQED’s coverage of the war\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, and read about the history of the decades-long conflict in NPR’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">\u003cem>‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Where are the protests happening?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of May 2, there are at least 14 pro-Palestinian encampments on college campuses throughout California. They include multiple campuses in the Bay Area, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">Stanford University\u003c/a>, UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pro-Palestinian protests on California college campuses\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-BxKrr\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/BxKrr/17/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"650\" height=\"845\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most encampments have been established in central campus locations. At UC Berkeley’s encampment, which began last week, there are now nearly 100 tents — occupied by students, alums and faculty — sprawled in front of Sproul Hall, a center of student life on campus. (Some campuses have also seen counterprotests by supporters of Israel, such as a recent demonstration at UCLA that received \u003ca href=\"https://dailybruin.com/2024/04/27/counter-protests-of-ucla-encampment-raise-over-50000-on-gofundme\">thousands of dollars of support on GoFundMe\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pro-Palestinian student protests have largely been peaceful, noted Johnston, the historian, adding that some people inaccurately view the student protesters of the 1960s as more “disciplined” than their counterparts today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that in terms of tactics, the students of 2024 are much more restrained than \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp8w8\">the students of 1968, ’69, ’70,”\u003c/a> Johnston said. “They haven’t been engaging in battles with police. We’ve seen only a few building takeovers. We’ve seen very little property destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>What do protesters want universities to divest from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Afaneh explained that divestment should include “any of the university’s endowments, any of their partnerships, that are in partnership with institutions complicit in this genocide — whether it be weapons, arms manufacturers, and things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for divestment from companies linked to Israel — a key strategy in the global \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds\">Boycott, Divest, Sanction\u003c/a> (BDS) movement — is nothing new among student activists \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/23924319/israel-palestine-apartheid-meaning-history-debate\">fighting for the rights of Palestinians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-SFSU-GAZA-RALLY-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University student Zinaib I. speaks at a rally outside the student center on April 30. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, UC Berkeley’s student government passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/archives/uc-student-association-votes-to-divest-from-companies-allegedly-violating-palestinian-rights/article_c2874bba-98af-5771-b3a2-4c92c5ba6271.html\">a resolution calling for similar divestment actions in 2015\u003c/a>. The prevalence of such activism has even led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/04/28/an-obscure-california-law-may-prevent-action-on-protesters-calls-for-divestment-from-israel/#:~:text=The%20law%20forbids%20the%20award,known%20by%20the%20acronym%20BDS.\">anti-boycott laws\u003c/a> in California and other states — legislation condemned\u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses\"> by Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> — that has \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2018/11/22/israel-boycott-canary-mission-blacklist/\">landed some students on blacklists\u003c/a>, potentially affecting their future employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the main companies activists have targeted include \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/archives/uc-student-association-votes-to-divest-from-companies-allegedly-violating-palestinian-rights/article_c2874bba-98af-5771-b3a2-4c92c5ba6271.html\">General Electric, Boeing, Caterpillar, Google and Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, all of which, they say, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnestyusa.org/no-weapons-for-war-crimes/\">profiteer from Israel’s war crimes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johnston, the Vietnam War student protests revealed “a web of relationships between universities, the government, the national security state, the military-industrial complex. [And] when those relationships were revealed, the pressure to draw them back became intense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yousuf Abubakr, a UC Berkeley student studying mechanical engineering, said big \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-block-entrances-to-lockheed-martin-facility-in-sunnyvale/\">defense contractors like Lockheed Martin\u003c/a> and Boeing often attend engineering career fairs on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’d be great to get engineering students more aware of the companies and their position in this genocide and ethnic cleansing,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>How are colleges responding to the protests?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Reactions from colleges have varied significantly across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UCLA \u003c/strong>declared its pro-Palestinian encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful\">“unlawful”\u003c/a> Tuesday evening, saying students face possible suspension or expulsion, with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pplscitycouncil/status/1785203795645063207?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">videos showing police in riot gear on campus\u003c/a>. On April 30, UCLA’s independent student newspaper reported that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dailybruin/status/1785549519989735509?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">pro-Israel supporters were tearing down pro-Palestinian encampment\u003c/a> barricades, clashing with protesters and allegedly setting off fireworks. The \u003cem>LA Times \u003c/em>reported that security guards \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful\">watching the scene did not intervene\u003c/a>. Classes were \u003ca href=\"https://bso.ucla.edu/\">canceled the next day\u003c/a> and UC President Michael V. Drake ordered an independent review of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on Thursday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/la-me-ucla-camp-police\">more than 200 protesters were arrested\u003c/a> as police in riot gear clashed with them and dismantled the encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24123593377542-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>UC Riverside\u003c/strong> on Friday, pro-Palestinian student protesters said they had reached an agreement with university leaders and \u003ca href=\"https://riversiderecord.org/student-protesters-ucr-administration-reach-agreement-to-end-encampment/\">announced their encampment would be coming down\u003c/a>. As part of the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.ucr.edu/chancellor/May_3_ammended-agreement.pdf\">agreement, signed by its chancellor\u003c/a>, UC Riverside pledged to form a task force of students and faculty to explore the potential removal of the university’s endowment from the UC Investment Office’s management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>Cal Poly Humboldt\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/cal-poly-humboldt\">students last week took over an administrative building\u003c/a>. On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/cal-poly-humboldt-police-declare-demonstration-19429921.php\">some 300 officers in riot gear arrested 35 protesters\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/E__C___/status/1785353134828839383\">an assistant professor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/nyregion/california-poly-humboldt-protests-arrests.html\">ending the building takeover\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At\u003cstrong> Stanford University\u003c/strong>, officials have repeatedly warned student protesters in encampments that they are violating campus policies and may face suspension. The school \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2024/04/30/stanford-forwards-encampment-photo-to-fbi/\">also recently sent a photo to the FBI\u003c/a> of an unidentified person at the encampment with a green headband resembling those worn by Hamas, according to \u003cem>The Stanford Daily\u003c/em>, the school’s independent student newspaper\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cstrong>University of Southern California \u003c/strong>made headlines in mid-April when the administration announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/us/usc-cancels-outside-speakers-2024-commencement/index.html#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20Southern%20California%20announced%20it's%20calling%20off%20appearances,what%20it%20called%20security%20concerns.\">it was canceling the commencement speech\u003c/a> of its Muslim valediction — who has previously expressed pro-Palestinian views — citing safety concerns. 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Earlier this week, the university’s president met with pro-Palestine students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools in California where protests are happening, however, have so far allowed them to proceed without disruption as long as they are conducted peacefully. \u003cstrong>SFSU\u003c/strong> spokesperson Kent Bravo said the school has long honored the right of community members to peacefully protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">“while preserving a safe campus environment.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sacramento State\u003c/strong> President Luke Woods extended approval for the pro-Palestinian encampment on that school’s campus. “Our job is not to squash free speech,” Wood said, the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thestatehornet/status/1785473239214669939?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">student newspaper, \u003cem>The State Hornet, reported \u003c/em>on X\u003c/a>. “Our job is to protect safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irvine Mayor Farrah N. Khan took preemptive action and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bencamach0/status/1785056654444404887?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">released a statement\u003c/a> asking the city’s police to “stand down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not tolerate any violence to students’ rights to peacefully assemble and protest,” Khan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003cstrong>UC Berkeley’s \u003c/strong>growing encampment, there has so far been virtually no police intervention, which is in sharp contrast to what’s transpired at UCLA. Dan Mogulof, an administration spokesperson, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905545/whats-next-for-pro-palestinian-campus-protests\">\u003cem>KQED’s Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the University of California changed its policy on responding to “non-violent political protests” after \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2021/11/18/10-years-later-uc-davis-implements-change-following-pepper-spraying-incident/\">the 2012 Occupy Wall Street movement, during which an officer pepper-sprayed a group of UC Davis protesters\u003c/a>. The new policy, he said, stipulates that school officials should no longer call in law enforcement preemptively but only “when there’s a clear, imminent threat to the campus, to life safety and to the safety of the campus community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“What we’re seeing around the country, bringing in law enforcement can have unintended consequences and can make the matter worse,” Mogulof said. “But there’s another level. We must, at the same time, be prepared to respond to individual or isolated incidents of alleged criminal behavior, harassment, or discrimination.” (He added that police are investigating an alleged incident in which a Jewish law student, who was also interviewed on the \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> show, said he was punched while filming at a pro-Palestinian rally.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, according to the \u003cem>Daily Cal, \u003c/em>Berkeley’s independent student newspaper, the university’s administration had \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/featured/uc-berkeley-administration-begins-negotiations-with-free-palestine-encampment/article_3da3ceee-082c-11ef-96a5-5750ec0f7ab4.html\">“begun negotiations”\u003c/a> with the encampment protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, UC President Michael V. Drake said in a statement on Tuesday, “The University of California campuses will work with students, faculty and staff to make space available and do all we can to protect these protests and demonstrations.” But he added that “Disruptive unlawful protests that violate the rights of our fellow citizens are unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003cem>LA Times\u003c/em>, Drake did not specify what behavior he found disruptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that one of the things that’s really distinctive about this moment is that — [and] it has been true for quite a while — that student dissent and student protest around the issue of Israel and Palestine has been more likely to be met with suppressive tactics from administrators and police, than a lot of other kinds of protest,” added Johnston, the historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few schools have met with student protesters to discuss divestment options so far. Some have said their investments mainly consist of large mutual funds rather than holdings in individual companies, which they say \u003ca href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/calls-to-divest-from-israel-part-of-campus-protests-thats-not-easy-to-do-experts-say/4FBKI3MFFVBY3K65FYNLDRLD4A/\">makes divestment decisions far more complicated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University wrote in an email to KQED that the school’s board makes divestment decisions of trustees. “In 2015, the Board declined a proposal to divest of certain companies doing business in Israel,” it said. “The Board has not received another formal divestment petition on this subject, and its 2015 decision remains in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240425-STANFORDGAZAPROTEST-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto on April 25, calling for the university to divest from Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>Have there been previous divestment campaigns?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Divestment campaigns have been pursued for decades by activists fighting for various human rights and environmental causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s “not unusual at all for that to be a strategy that goes on for decades before winning full fruition,” Johnston said. For example, climate activists have long pushed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/29/apartheid-to-fossil-fuels-columbias-history-of-divestment-before-gaza\">universities to divest from fossil fuel companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2006/03/101734/uc-regents-vote-divest-companies-business-ties-sudanese-government\">the University of California Board of Regents voted to divest\u003c/a> “from several companies involved in significant business activities that provide revenue to the Sudanese government to continue acts of genocide in Darfur” — an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-me-ucsudan9-story.html\">outcome largely credited to student protesters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California has taken a principled stand against the tragedy in Sudan by severing its financial connections from those nine companies who aid the genocide and by lending its voice to those calling for peace in the region,” Gerald L. 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