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The student-led protests demanding universities cut financial and academic ties to Israel have led to unprecedented support for the Palestinian liberation struggle, and have propelled the divestment debate into the mainstream, according to the co-founder of the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights defender who helped launch the BDS movement almost 20 years ago, said the students’ solidarity had helped educate the world about the Israeli occupation and “apartheid” while exposing the hypocrisy — and repressive tendencies — of some of the world’s most prestigious universities with investments in corporations which put “profit before people and the planet”.
“The current student-led uprising on campuses in the US, Europe and globally is a sign of Palestine’s South Africa moment, as the support for ending complicity in Israel’s genocide and underlying 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid is reaching a tipping point in the struggle for Palestinian liberation … the ‘B’ and ‘D’ in BDS have gone much more mainstream than before.
“This student uprising has been a crash course on Palestine for millions in the west in particular, undoing many years of silencing and erasing Palestinian voices, Palestinian history, Palestinian culture [and] aspirations … it gives us hope and inspiration in these dark times of Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip,” Barghouti told the Guardian as Israel continued to defy a ruling by the UN’s top court to stop its assault on Rafah — the southern city of Gaza where Palestinian refugees have painted messages of gratitude to the students on their tents.
Across the world, students have been demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, as well as greater transparency and divestment from defense-related companies and weapons manufacturers arming the Israeli military. Since Israel started its retaliation over the Hamas attack on 7 October which left almost 1,200 dead, it has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians with thousands more missing under the rubble and presumed dead.
The student movement at Columbia University is among those also demanding the college disclose and offload investments in a broad set of companies with ties to Israel including Google, Amazon and Airbnb. Some campus movements also want to cut partnerships with Israeli academic institutions that operate in occupied Palestinian territories or support/sustain what human rights groups describe as the state’s apartheid policies and the current war on Gaza.
Barghouti was a student at Columbia University in the 1980s, when anti-apartheid protesters blockaded Hamilton Hall for three weeks as part of a campaign to force the Ivy league school to divest from South Africa. Launched in 2005, the BDS movement is inspired by the South African anti-apartheid struggle and US civil rights movement.
The recent pro-Palestinian student protests grew after the president of Columbia University authorized New York City police to forcibly evict the student encampment in April, which ended with more than a hundred arrests and several students suspended.
With few exceptions, university administrators have called in police, who have been accused of using excessive force against students and faculty.
“The violence deployed by police to repress the student-led protests has been shocking, yet indicative of the power of these mobilizations. Such grave violations of freedom of expression, academic freedom and the civic right to peacefully protest attest to the fertile potential of this uprising to pave the way to cutting ties of complicity with Israel’s regime,” said Barghouti.
Over the past few weeks, BDS says dozens of universities across the world have committed to preliminary steps towards at least discussing divestment from companies and/or cutting ties with Israeli universities which protesters say are “complicit”. Many encampments have been shut down due to the summer vacations, but students and a growing number of faculty, staff and alumni have protested graduation ceremonies and pledged to not back down.
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The Israeli government has long rejected allegations of apartheid — and the mounting allegations of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza by South Africa at the international court of justice, UN experts and human rights groups. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and others including Republicans in the US, have condemned the campus protests as “antisemitic’ — an allegation widely rejected by the students and staff including Jewish participants.
In many cases, the same prestigious universities have also faced mounting pressure from students, faculty and staff, to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry which is driving the climate emergency and has a long track record in funding academic programs and researchers, as part of its strategy to deny and delay meaningful climate action.