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Harvard Protests End With Whimper as Israel Divestment Demands Fail
- Accords that ended campus encampments carry symbolic weight
- But real effects on schools’ investments likely to be minimal
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Pro-Palestinian protesters at Harvard University are clearing out their weeks-long encampment without achieving their primary demand: forcing the school to cut its financial ties to Israel.
It’s become a pattern. Demonstrators at Northwestern and Brown also took down their tents and tables recently, assuaged by the schools’ promises to consider their pleas. The protesters initially viewed this as progress in their Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaigns to drive the universities’ endowments to divest from the Jewish state and weapons makers.