The encampment on UBC’s Okanagan campus is demanding that the university divests from companies complicit in ‘Palestinian genocide’
After nearly two weeks of demonstrations at UBC Okanagan, the principal and deputy vice-chancellor of the institution, Lesley Cormack, has responded to pro-Palestinian protesters with a letter.
To read the full list of demands visit ubcdivest.org and ubcim.ca to read the annual investment report. However, he also stated that a percentage of the university’s funds are managed by external investment managers. Some of the funds have been invested in companies now being accused of being “complicit in Israel’s numerous violations of Palestinian human rights,” by the People’s University for Gaza.
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