Breaking Ground: Evergreen State College Takes First Steps Towards Divestment from Human Rights Violators in Gaza

This week on Intercepted, a special episode focuses on the student movement advocating for Gaza. Politics reporter Prem Thakker from The Intercept discusses the campus protests and the students’ demands for institutions to sever financial connections with Israel and weapons manufacturers. Gillian Goodman, a freelance writer and journalism graduate student at Columbia University, shares her experience at the protest encampment at Columbia. This demonstration inspired similar events nationwide, but was forcibly dismantled by the police.

In response to these protests, The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington has made an agreement with students to begin the process of divesting from companies that profit from human rights violations in Palestinian territories. This decision sets the college apart as one of the few schools to respond to student protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza. Demonstrations have occurred on over 154 campuses across the country.