In 2025, students around the world came together to challenge their schools’ complicity in the Gaza genocide. Despite heavy repression, they won major victories, including divestment and commitments to cut ties with Israeli institutions.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) will divest from Israel bonds and from other governments maintaining illegal military occupations, making it the first church in the world to make such a pledge.
Data from a leading source of real-time data on political violence and protest activity across the globe show that the majority of campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza are peaceful.
Colombia University, at the center of protests against Israel’s Gaza war, has a tradition of student action bringing divestment.
Inside Higher Ed: Under pressure from donors & politicians, some college administrators are increasingly punishing student activists with suspensions, expulsions & arrests’
In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.
Harvard students have established a Liberated Zone to call for an end to Harvard’s complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a demonstration of their love of justice, their hope for a free Palestine, and their dream of a liberated future for all.