A group of Israel-bashing activists are plotting to pressure Brown University into divesting from firms they accuse of being “complicit in human rights abuses” against Palestinians.
Hard-left student campaigners want the university’s board of trustees, chaired by Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, to cut ties with companies they claim are “profiting from the genocide in Gaza.”Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, was elected chancellor to lead Brown’s board of trustees in February of this year.
The Starwood Capital Group CEO, whose father fled Poland before the Holocaust, lambasted Brown president Christina Paxton for backing down, slamming the protesters as “ignorant.” The anti-Israel protesters have argued that the Ivy League institution should copy its approach from the 1980s to the South African apartheid regime.Jane Dietze, Brown’s chief investment officer, has presided over a 70% increase in the fund’s value. since her appointment in 2018.“Given today’s realities, it’s not possible to divest the way Brown did in South Africa,” she said.
The endowments are also a key source of financing for major colleges, helping to bankroll university programs or scholarships.and Havard supremo Claudine Gay were forced to resign after a disastrous testimony to Congress in December after they declined to say whether calling for the genocide of Jews would breach school rules.
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