{"id":229855,"date":"2026-07-30T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/229855\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:30:11","slug":"columbia-grad-student-union-officials-drop-israel-divestment-demand-face-the-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/229855\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia grad student union officials drop Israel divestment demand: ‘Face the realities’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The student union at Columbia University dropped its Israel divestment demand \u2014 marking a loss for anti-Israel protesters <\/a>as their group leader admitted it must \u201cface the realities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The union on Tuesday scrapped part of a contract it had been negotiating with the Ivy League that called for the school to withdraw financial investments from companies that do business with Israel, The Columbia Spectator reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou start off a campaign with one thing, and then as you bargain, you have to face the realities of where you are,\u201d Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers President Grant Miner told the paper.<\/p>\n

Anti-Israel protesters at a rally on Columbia University\u2019s campus on April 22, 2024. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

An \u201cintifada\u201d sign hung by protesters from Columbia\u2019s Hamilton Hall. X\/@LishiBaker<\/p>\n

The union had included\u00a0major demands, including that the school divest from companies in violation of \u201cinternational law,\u201d a measure targeted at Israel.<\/p>\n

The union, which is made up of 3,000 undergrads, has been negotiating a contract with the university since last year, with demands leading to a stalemate.<\/p>\n

A Columbia investment committee had\u00a0rejected student protester demands<\/a>\u00a0that the university divest from Israel, saying some of the demands were too vague with no consensus on campus, according to the Times of Israel. <\/a>It also said it was not financially viable.<\/p>\n

The Post\u2019s cover on anti-Israel protests at Columbia. rfaraino<\/p>\n

The \u201cdivestment\u201d protest movement calls for withdrawing stocks, funds, and investments from companies that do business with Israel.<\/p>\n

Columbia became a hotbed for anti-Israel protests <\/a>in the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked the Jewish state, sparking a war.<\/p>\n

Students spent weeks in the spring of 2024 taking over the university\u2019s South Lawn for a \u201cGaza Solidarity Encampment.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The student union at Columbia University dropped its Israel divestment demand \u2014 marking a loss for anti-Israel protesters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[41582,15723,37,8981,14645,933],"class_list":["post-229855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-bds","tag-columbia-university","tag-israel","tag-metro","tag-unions","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117011534796155015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}