Students Face Trial for Palestine Protest, War Profiteers Get Medals
The New Arab reports on Stanford students facing trial for occupying offices, demanding divestment from companies enabling Israel's assault on Gaza. These are students risking their futures to stop a slaughter, while the university endowment, like many others, quietly lines its pockets with investments in firms like BlackRock, which continues to fund weapons manufacturers complicit in the carnage.
The outrage isn't at the bloodshed, but at the inconvenience of students speaking up. It appears that the halls of academia are sacrosanct, but the lives of Palestinians are, well, negotiable. These students disrupted property , a cardinal sin in an economic system that values real estate over human beings. Funny how the same institutions that laud 'free speech' only until it becomes inconvenient,
are quick to prosecute those who demand accountability from their complicit endowments. One might wonder if Stanford’s commitment to 'diversity' extends to Palestinian lives, or if it stops short of divesting from companies profiting from their destruction.