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Brown University refused pro-Palestinian student demands to divest from companies doing business with Israel

Pro Palestinian protestors Brown University

Important Takeaways:

  • The university’s highest governing body, the Corporation of Brown University, says divesting “would signal that there are ‘approved’ points of views to which members of the community are expected to conform,” which would be “wholly inconsistent with the principles of academic freedom and free inquiry and would undermine our mission.”
  • “Brown’s mission doesn’t encompass resolving or adjudicating global conflict.”
  • Supporters of divestment ended their encampment last spring, in exchange for a promise that their call for divestment would get a vote from the Board this fall.
  • Students on both sides of the issue had made their case last month to the Advisory Committee on University Resources Management, which on Sept. 30 voted 8-2, with 1 abstention, to recommend that the board not divest.
  • The Brown decision has been watched closely around the nation, as it would have been the first Ivy League school to divest from businesses with ties to Israel.

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Kremlin condemns death of Hamas leader; blames US for “manic desire” to monopolize the political process in the region

Haniyeh-with-Khamenei

Important Takeaways:

  • Russia warned Wednesday that the assassination in Iran of visiting Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh threatened a full “global conflict” — as the terror group called it “a grave escalation” and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei threatened “harsh punishment” for Israel.
  • “We resolutely condemn the attack that led to Mr. Haniyeh’s death,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said soon after Haniyeh was killed in an airstrike while in Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president.
  • “We believe that such action is aimed against attempts to establish peace in the region, and could significantly destabilize the already tense situation,” he said.
  • Russian Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Andrei Nastasin also said the killing “raise[d] the stakes” in tensions already rife over Israel’s war on the terror group after the Oct. 7 slaughter of more than 1,200.
  • “The region is currently balancing on the brink of a global conflict,” Natasin said.

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