Out of utter shock at the number of UK universities continuing to maintain their ties with the apartheid state of Israel, I am asking the people in this sub to consider emailing these aforementioned universities to amplify our collective, humanitarian view that these universities’ substantial ties to Israel amidst their war crimes and genocide is unacceptable.

The more people who email these universities, the more pressure we put on them.

pls take a few seconds to copy and paste the university’s key email addresses and the email that I have included below (that I have modified from the website ‘defund genocide’), or feel free to write your own email if you wish:

(also pls let me know if I urgently need to change anything in the email provided below)

**Hopefully, you SHOULDN’T have to copy and paste each email individually: log into the web browser (I.e not the app) version of your email provider and copy and paste the whole block of emails below.** 

[studentcomplaints@westminster.ac.uk](mailto:studentcomplaints@westminster.ac.uk), [ld35@soas.ac.uk](mailto:ld35@soas.ac.uk), [lh4@soas.ac.uk](mailto:lh4@soas.ac.uk), [studentcomplaints@soas.ac.uk](mailto:studentcomplaints@soas.ac.uk), [fees@soas.ac.uk](mailto:fees@soas.ac.uk), [governance@soas.ac.uk,](mailto:governance@soas.ac.uk)[studentcentre@westminster.ac.uk](mailto:studentcentre@westminster.ac.uk), [C.Kalantaridis@westminster.ac.uk](mailto:C.Kalantaridis@westminster.ac.uk), [P.Bonfied@westminster.ac.uk](mailto:P.Bonfied@westminster.ac.uk), [sas.acadappeals.complaints@sheffield.ac.uk](mailto:sas.acadappeals.complaints@sheffield.ac.uk), [c.cottrell@sheffield.ac.uk](mailto:c.cottrell@sheffield.ac.uk), [vcfinance@sheffield.ac.uk](mailto:vcfinance@sheffield.ac.uk), [vc@sheffield.ac.uk](mailto:vc@sheffield.ac.uk), [claire.francis@manchester.ac.uk](mailto:claire.francis@manchester.ac.uk), [carol.prokopyszyn@manchester.ac.uk](mailto:carol.prokopyszyn@manchester.ac.uk), [n.thakkar@manchester.ac.uk](mailto:n.thakkar@manchester.ac.uk), [duncan.ivison@manchester.ac.uk](mailto:duncan.ivison@manchester.ac.uk), [president@manchester.ac.uk](mailto:president@manchester.ac.uk), [lindsey.sergeant@liverpool.ac.uk](mailto:lindsey.sergeant@liverpool.ac.uk), [J.E.Madeley@adm.leeds.ac.uk](mailto:J.E.Madeley@adm.leeds.ac.uk), [J.F.Cabrera@liverpool.ac.uk](mailto:J.F.@Cabrera@liverpool.ac.uk), [kathryn.cross@liverpool.ac.uk](mailto:kathryn.cross@liverpool.ac.uk), [studentcomplaints@leeds.ac.uk](mailto:studentcomplaints@leeds.ac.uk), [J.E.Madeley@adm.leeds.ac.uk](mailto:J.E.Madeley@adm.leeds.ac.uk), [vice-chancellor@leeds.ac.uk](mailto:vice-chancellor@leeds.ac.uk), [complaints@ed.ac.uk](mailto:complaints@ed.ac.uk), [university.secretary@ed.ac.uk](mailto:university.secretary@ed.ac.uk), [Kim.Graham@ed.ac.uk](mailto:Kim.Graham@ed.ac.uk), [principal@ed.ac.uk](mailto:principal@ed.ac.uk), [studentcomplaints@admin.cam.ac.uk](mailto:studentcomplaints@admin.cam.ac.uk), [communications@admin.cam.ac.uk](mailto:communications@admin.cam.ac.uk), [vco.enquiries@admin.cam.ac.uk](mailto:vco.enquiries@admin.cam.ac.uk), [vice-chancellor@admin.cam.ac.uk](mailto:vice-chancellor@admin.cam.ac.uk), [casework@proctors.ox.ac.uk](mailto:casework@proctors.ox.ac.uk), [enquiries@devoff.ox.ac.uk](mailto:enquiries@devoff.ox.ac.uk), [vice-chancellor@admin.ox.ac.uk](mailto:vice-chancellor@admin.ox.ac.uk), [vc-team@bristol.ac.uk](mailto:vc-team@bristol.ac.uk), [student-complaints@bristol.ac.uk](mailto:student-complaints@bristol.ac.uk), [pa-pvceducation@bristol.ac.uk](mailto:pa-pvceducation@bristol.ac.uk), [Shirley.congdon@bradford.ac.uk](mailto:Shirley.congdon@bradford.ac.uk), [j.clarke8@bradford.ac.uk](mailto:j.clarke8@bradford.ac.uk), [m.kenyon2@bradford.ac.uk](mailto:m.kenyon2@bradford.ac.uk), [complaintsandappeals@bradford.ac.uk](mailto:complaintsandappeals@bradford.ac.uk), [vc@bham.ac.uk](mailto:vc@bham.ac.uk), [student-complaints@contacts.bham.ac.uk](mailto:student-complaints@contacts.bham.ac.uk), [k.a.caves@bham.ac.uk](mailto:k.a.caves@bham.ac.uk), [n.mcghee@ucl.ac.uk](mailto:n.mcghee@ucl.ac.uk), [su.complaints@ucl.ac.uk](mailto:su.complaints@ucl.ac.uk), [abigail.smith@ucl.ac.uk](mailto:abigail.smith@ucl.ac.uk), [president.provost@ucl.ac.uk](mailto:president.provost@ucl.ac.uk), [clare.e.davies@swansea.ac.uk](mailto:clare.e.davies@swansea.ac.uk), [legalservices@swansea.ac.uk](mailto:legalservices@swansea.ac.uk), [vc@swansea.ac.uk](mailto:vc@swansea.ac.uk), [studentcases@swansea.ac.uk](mailto:studentcases@swansea.ac.uk), [Julie.Sanders@rhul.ac.uk](mailto:Julie.Sanders@rhul.ac.uk),  [Andrew.Boggs@rhul.ac.uk](mailto:Andrew.Boggs@rhul.ac.uk), [complaints@rhul.ac.uk](mailto:complaints@rhul.ac.uk), [k.tangalova@qmul.ac.uk](mailto:k.tangalova@qmul.ac.uk), [studentenquiry@qmul.ac.uk](mailto:studentenquiry@qmul.ac.uk), [appeals@qmul.ac.uk](mailto:appeals@qmul.ac.uk), [chris.day@ncl.ac.uk](mailto:chris.day@ncl.ac.uk),   [scm@mmu.ac.uk](mailto:scm@mmu.ac.uk), [j.butler@mmu.ac.uk](mailto:j.butler@mmu.ac.uk), [CFO-PA@mmu.ac.uk](mailto:CFO-PA@mmu.ac.uk), [j.cousen@mmu.ac.uk](mailto:j.cousen@mmu.ac.uk), [vice-chancellor@mmu.ac.uk](mailto:vice-chancellor@mmu.ac.uk), [a.subic@aston.ac.uk](mailto:a.subic@aston.ac.uk), [a.levey@aston.ac.uk](mailto:a.levey@aston.ac.uk), [advice@aston.ac.uk](mailto:advice@aston.ac.uk), [complaints@warwick.ac.uk](mailto:complaints@warwick.ac.uk), [S.Croft@warwick.ac.uk](mailto:S.Croft@warwick.ac.uk), [G.Wild@warwick.ac.uk](mailto:G.Wild@warwick.ac.uk), [vcpa@warwick.ac.uk](mailto:vcpa@warwick.ac.uk)

Both the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and Demilitarise Education have conducted extensive research revealing that UK universities collectively invest nearly £2billion in the global arms trade and almost £430 million in companies complicit in Israeli violations of international law.

This university has been named as having its ethical investment policies compromised through its unlawful investments in companies contributing to these violations.

This university is profiteering from Israel’s illegal occupation, crimes against humanity and now Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. Via this university’s investments in companies tied to Israel’s illegal occupation, Israel is financially facilitated to proceed with its war crimes against the Palestinian people. Israel’s military actions in Gaza is extremely distressing and wholly unacceptable. 

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) clearly sets out that “all companies have a responsibility to respect human rights and, to meet that responsibility, undertake human rights due diligence to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how they address both their potential and actual human rights impacts.” It is unacceptable to me that the University makes significant investments without proper and adequate oversight contributing in the Israeli apartheid system and its war crimes being perpetuated against an occupied people.

On 20th June 2024, the United Nations issued a statement requiring states and defence companies including BAE Systems, Boeing, Caterpillar and Rolls Royce to halt arms transfers even if they are being executed under current export licences to Israel as this is likely to “constitute serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian laws and risks state complicity in international crimes, possibly including genocide.” What actions have you taken to ensure that the University is not complicit in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians? 

The University Policy also incorporates Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors into investment decision-making. However, it is clear to me that the University has failed to take into account the ESG factors as a result of Israel’s illegal war against the Palestinians. I set these out as follows: 

• Water scarcity – before 7th October 2023, 97% of Gaza’s water was unfit for human consumption including 108 million litres of untreated sewage released int the sea daily due to Israel damaging the treatment plants. The water infrastructure has now been completely destroyed;  

• Agriculture – approximately 22% of Gaza’s agricultural land had been destroyed or rendered inaccessible due to Israel’s ground offensive. Israel has also destroyed approximately 70% of Gaza’s fishing fleet; 

• Energy crisis - Gaza’s powerplant ran out of fuel in October last year which has significantly affected essential services like hospital and water treatment facilities; 

• Environment – Israel has destroyed most of the Gaza strip leaving it mostly uninhabitable. It has produced 37 million tons of debris after destroying buildings of which 900,000 tons is toxic waste which has placed Gazans at serious health risks.According to the Social Science Research Network, emissions from the first 120 days of Israel’s war on Gaza exceed the annual emissions of 26 countries and territories (90% attributed to Israel). It is estimated by experts that it would take 10 to 15 years to clear the rubble;

• Humanitarian crisis – 80% of Gaza’s population relied on humanitarian aid since 2007 and this has now significantly increased. The UN issued a statement in January 2024, “Currently every single person in Gaza is hungry, a quarter of the population are starving and struggling to find food and drinkable water, and famine is imminent. Pregnant women are not receiving adequate nutrition and healthcare, putting their lives at risk. In addition all children under five – 335,000 – are at high risk of severe malnutrition as the risk of famine conditions continues to increase, a whole generation is now in danger of suffering from stunting,” said the experts”. 

Human rights and ESG values should not only be a right for people living here in the West. They should and must be available to all people including those that are of an Arab descent. We cannot espouse values when we are not willing to address those that are suffering as a direct result of our own conduct, in this case investmentscomplicit in Israel’s war crimes. The University has failed to adhere to its own ethical investment policy.

The brutality of the Israeli war crimes is evident to all of us who are witnessing the images and videos from within Gaza. I am astounded that the University still has investments that support Israel’s war crimes and the continuation of its illegal occupation of the Palestinians despite the significant death toll of recorded deaths which currently stands at 74200 civilians, including over 17,000 children killed (This only includes people who hospitals have identified and officially confirmed to have been killed violently by Israel.) More than 8,000 others are estimated to be missing under the rubble and presumed dead. On 4th July 2024, The Lancet issued a report estimating that the actual number of Palestinians killed are far greater and could be 186,000. At least 170,000 people have been injured. In September 2026, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres observed the “scale of killing and destruction” in Gaza is “unlike anything I have witnessed in my time as secretary-general,” adding “so-called ceasefires have amounted to little more than lesser fires, with civilians continuing to pay the price.” 

90% of Gaza’s population have been displaced from their homes, often more than once. The entire population of Gaza faces acute food insecurity. Israel is also now deliberately starving civilians in Gaza which is a war crime. There is ample evidence including video footage which highlights that Israel is indiscriminately killing Palestinian civilians or killing civilians including young children by intentionally starving them.

There is ample evidence that atrocities and human rights violations are being committed in Gaza and the West Bank by Israel. Students’ tuition fees are paid into the University’s investment portfolio which in turn facilitates, in part, activities which can be deemed as criminal activities.

I set out the relevant legislation for you as follows: 

• It is an offence for a person to commit genocide, a crime against humanity (s.51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001); 

• It is an offence for a person to ‘engage in conduct ancillary to committing genocide (s.52 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001); 

• It is an offence for a person to aid or abet in the commission of the offence (s.55 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001); 

As highlighted above, it is a criminal offence to aid or abet complicity in Israel’s war crimes and genocide of the Palestinians. Prosecution of these offences has no time limit and carries a maximum sentence of 30 years imprisonment.

International Arms Treaty

It is also relevant here that the UK ratified the International Arms Treaty in 2014. The “Treaty sets common international standards for arms export controls, and puts international law and human rights at the heart of the global arms trade. The ATT has the real potential to reduce human suffering, and increase security across the globe.”

There does not appear have been any credible assessment of Britain’s arm sales to Israel in light of the ICJ ruling and the countless pieces of evidence which show that the Israelis are at the very least indiscriminately killing Palestinians without care for the significantly high number of casualties including women and children.  

ICJ Ruling and Order January 2024

On 26th January 2024, the ICJ affirmed in their ruling that on the facts presented showed that it is plausible that Israel's conduct amounts to genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. To prevent genocidal acts from continuing, they further ordered that the following provisional measures must be taken by Israel:

(1) “By fifteen votes to two, 

The State of Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular:

(a) killing members of the group; 

(b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; 

(c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and 

(d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”

ICJ Ruling July 2024

Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) are illegal under international law, as affirmed by the Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into the territory it occupies. There are several UN resolutions, including Security Council Resolution 446 (1979), Resolution 478 (1980) and Resolution 2334 (2016), which condemn settlement expansion as a violation that threatens peace and the viability of a Palestinian state. The ICJ, in its 2004 advisory opinion, confirmed the illegality of both settlements and Israel’s separation wall, emphasising that these actions obstruct Palestinian self-determination.

More recently, on 19 July 2024, the ICJ declared Israel’s continued presence and settlement activities in these territories are unlawful ‘along with the associated settlement regime, annexation and use of natural resources. The Court added that Israel's legislation and measures violate the international prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid.’ The ICJ emphasised that all states are obligated not to recognise the illegal situation and to ensure Israel ceases its settlement activities and provides reparations. Israel has accelerated its settlement building. On 8 March 2024, UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Turk said “the establishment and continuing expansion of settlements amount to the transfer by Israel of its own civilian population into the territories that it occupies, which amounts to a war crime under international law.” The UN report also found “that the policies of the current Israeli Government appear aligned, to an unprecedented extent, with the goals of the Israeli settler movement to expand long-term control over the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and to steadily integrate this occupied territory into the State of Israel.”

University complicity

On 8 December 2023, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Campaign Against Arms Trade as well as other civil rights organisations wrote to Government calling for an immediate halt to UK arms transfers to Israel. The Government decided to take no action despite the flagrant disregard of international law by Israel in Gaza.

Since the start of Israel’s military action, 31,184 Palestinians were killed in the first 4 months alone. The entire Gaza strip has been bombed. Israel has repeatedly asked the Palestinians to relocate to certain parts of the Gaza strip only to then launch a military attack on civilian populated areas. In the words of Josep Borell, European Union Foreign Chief who recently said Israel says “They are going to evacuate. Where? To the moon? Where are they going to evacuate these people? If the international community believes that this is a slaughter, that too many people have been killed, maybe they need to think about the provision of arms.”

As stated in the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal in 1946 “The very essence of the Charter is that individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual State. He who violates the laws of war cannot obtain immunity while acting in pursuance of the authority of the State, if the State is authorising action moves outside its competence under international law…”   

I understand that it is personally and legally obligatory for me to stop any facilitation of supporting or financing warfare, crimes against humanity, possible genocide, fraud or any criminal activity that leads to the injury or death of innocent civilian men, women and children. I implore that the University divests from its investments that are directly involved in upholding the illegal Israeli occupation and its war crimes against the Palestinians. 

We, the people, require proofs that the University’s investments are in full accordance with its own charitable objectives,it’s own investment policy, UK law, UN Charter, UN Declaration on Principles of International Law and international law.

Alicia Kearns MP recently said “I remain convinced the government has completed its updated assessment on whether Israel is demonstrating a commitment to international humanitarian law, and that it has concluded that Israel is not demonstrating this commitment, which is the legal determination it has to make,” she said. “Transparency at this point is paramount, not least to uphold the international rules-based order.”

On 12 December 2023, Martin Docherty-Hughes MP stated in Parliament, “We are asking the UK Government to cease extending arms licences to the state of Israel and to immediately halt the export of weapons or components, as has been mentioned, to the state of Israel, alongside our calls for an immediate ceasefire, the recognition of the Palestinian state and the support of the International Criminal Court’s investigation into potential war crimes.

But let us be clear: the United Kingdom will pay dearly for the moral equivalence that its current policy entails. While even the Labour leadership might not want to say it, we in the SNP are more than happy to remind the Government of this fact: violating international law may be a great wheeze to try and impress Daily Mail readers, but it has a habit of eating away at the state’s international reputation like acid. In this case, it is a great tragedy that the people of Gaza and others now involved in this conflict have to suffer so.”

On 25th March 2024, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the OPT, produced a report which concluded that there “are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met. More broadly, they also indicate that Israel’s actions have been driven by a genocidal logic integral to its settler-colonial project in Palestine, signalling a tragedy foretold” and called for an arms embargo on Israel.

When calling for a ceasefire, Brendan O’Hara MP stated in Parliament*, “No one would deny that Israel has the right to defend itself—every country has that right. What no country has the right to do, however, is lay siege to a civilian population, carpet-bomb densely inhabited areas, drive people from their homes, erase an entire civilian infrastructure, and impose a collective punishment involving the cutting off of water, electricity, food, and medicine from civilians. And no country, regardless of who it is, can, in the name of self-defence, kill civilians at such a pace, and on such a scale, that in just 16 weeks almost 30,000 are known to have died, with a further 80,000 injured. We cannot allow the core principle of self-defence to be so ruthlessly exploited and manipulated in order to legitimise the slaughter of innocent civilians. If we do that, what hope is there for the future of the international rules-based order, an order created to protect people from atrocities, not to be used as a smokescreen to hide the execution of them?”*

Karim Khan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a statement to say that he is seeking an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Khan announced that his office had “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant bear “criminal responsibility” for “war crimes and crimes against humanity”. Khan also confirmed that his team has found evidence that Israel has “intentionally and systematically deprived the civilian population in all parts of Gaza of objects indispensable to human survival…This took place alongside other attacks on civilians, including those queuing for food; obstruction of aid delivery by humanitarian agencies; and attacks on and killing of aid workers, which forced many agencies to cease or limit their operations in Gaza.”

The announcement by the ICC now means that the UK Government is obliged to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant should they enter any UK sovereign territory. It further requires the same obligation from all 124 member states of the ICC. 

In mid-August, Mark Smith, a senior civil servant and pen holder on arms exports licensing resigned. In his resignation letter, he stated, “Senior members of the Israeli government and military have expressed open genocidal intent, Israeli soldiers take videos deliberately burning, destroying and looting civilian property and openly admit to rape and torture of prisoners.” He went on to state “There is no justification for the UK’s continued arms sales to Israel yet somehow it continues. I have raised this at every level in the organisation including through an official whistle blowing investigation and received nothing more than “thank you we have noted your concerns”. Ministers claim that the UK has one of the most “robust and transparent” arms export licensing regimes in the world, however this is the opposite of the truth. As a fully cleared officer raising serious concerns of illegality in this Department, to be disregarded in this way is deeply troubling.”

I implore you to follow the correct example of Queen’s University Belfast, who will be divesting approximately £800,000 from its managed portfolio including an estimated £170,000 relating to shares or securities listed in Israel and a further £630,000 for non-Israeli companies listed on the UN blacklist. Queen’s University President and Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Ian Greer said:

“It is important that we move forward with our divestment policy as part of our ongoing commitment to responsible investment. As a civic university, we believe that our financial decisions can and should reflect our commitment to making a positive impact on society.”

“It is important that the student role is part of our overall decision-making structures and governance. We listened to our students following last year’s Student’s Union referendum and updated the University’s Responsible Investment Policy, which we will continue to review on an ongoing basis.” 

Similarly, TCD will divest from complicit companies, end collaborations with Israeli institutions and complicit universities, and commits to no contracts with complicit Israeli suppliers. The historic and principled decision of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) to sever institutional ties with the Israeli State and complicit universities and companies in response to recommendations of its Task Force acts as a courageous step and a testament to the power university investments and equally, divestments for social change. 

We call on this university to follow Trinity’s example and stand on the right side of history by cutting ties with apartheid Israel and its complicit universities, as was done against apartheid South Africa. No institution truly committed to justice and human rights can remain complicit in the crimes of a regime that systematically violates international law and human dignity.

By choosing to divest from complicit companies, end collaborations with Israeli institutions and complicit universities, and have no contracts with complicit Israeli suppliers, Trinity has taken a meaningful stand against Israel’s ongoing and livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, as well as its decades-old regime of settler-colonial apartheid and illegal military occupation.

TCD also commits to not participate in new research projects that include complicit Israeli institutions and to advocate, together with other European universities, for Israel’s exclusion from such research frameworks. 

TCD joins dozens of universities around the world taking steps to end complicity in Israel’s grave crimes against Palestinians. 

This university can be next in making a mark on history. 

Does anyone remember connection between Alo and isre? Other than the store they have open there and the israeli brand ambassador? My sister and I both remember seeing a few years ago something bigger like some shareholder or higher up being born there. But neither of us can find ANYTHING about it anymore. So we need some confirmation— either we’re both crazy, or they’ve buried it so deep, as we know fs has happened with other boycotts

I came across these dates and their other products. The company stated their dates come from Denmark. I have only visited Denmark once and actually just had a layover on the airport but I am good enough at geography to know Denmark does not have the right climate to grow dates.

After looking into a list of their Directors I noticed Noel Abdayem. Now there was nothing about his cv in the first place that showed a red flag until I saw his role in Jamaica where he produced biodegradable toothbrushes. He did this together with Dr. Darren Weiss who is Israeli and he established a foundation with.

Now since there is 0% chance the dates are Danish and a 98% chance his Israeli friend Dr. Weiss is a zio, can anyone confirm my research?

Hi! I’m thinking about buying a skin in Fortnite, so I was planning to buy some V-Bucks for that, but one of Epic Games’ shareholders is Walt Disney (9%). What do you think should be done in a situation like this? I really have no idea.

So today I made a comment on a Reddit post about the VYBS app agreeing with a poster about the scummy behavior of the company and saying it made sense since they’re an Israeli owned company. Within a literal minute of making that comment I received a strike and a warning about hate speech. Crazy world we live in today, huh?

Okay so I'm confused are we supposed to boycott only those companies that directly or indirectly support Israel (like if parent company supports the occupation) or are we also supposed to boycott every company that belongs to those countries that support Israel cuz of you think about it for example if a buy a product from a German company provided that it has no direct or indirect ties with Israel but Germany supports Israel and this company would have to pay tax to the German government which in turn would be given to Israel cuz they support Israel

I am so confused cuz I have seen some websites saying certain companies are boycott safe as they don't support Israel but it's a company from one those countries who supports Israel.

I am a high school student living in NY. My school had us submit applications for CUNY's that had free aplication for us.

That was about a month or so ago and recently I learned that CUNY got exposed for investing in companies that supported Israel.

The people that I got this info from (CUNY for Palestine) did not mention refusing to apply to CUNYs as a form of boycott but I have a few questions.

1. Should I withhold applying for a CUNY or should I protest as a CUNY student?
2. I'm pretty sure "free tuition" just means that it's payed for (CUNY would still get money). But if anyone can clarify, that would be great. (It's probably just free application, not free tuition.) EDIT: It was NOT free tuition, just free application.
3. If I do withhold applying for CUNY, is there any other way of furthering my education? (I'm at around a 60-70 GPA and I am in senior year) EDIT: Western Governors University (not the one in Canada, that one is associated with Israel) does seem like a good alternative.

Three-year-old Maryam Ahmed Ghanem was asleep when an Israeli occupation strike hit her family’s apartment near the Abu Talal junction in Al-Rimal, west Gaza City, at around 4am on Wednesday. Journalist Ali Al-Jaafarawi ran to the building after hearing the blast. When he climbed up to the burning apartment, the first thing he found was Maryam, crying in the middle of the flames, with the fire and smoke too thick for anyone to reach her. He went in anyway, carried her out and handed her to people waiting to rush her to hospital. When he went back inside to look for others, the smoke overwhelmed him and he lost consciousness, but not before he saw a woman burning inside the apartment. That woman was Maryam’s mother, in her thirties, killed in the strike. Her father was killed at the start of the genocide. Maryam survived the fire, and she is now an orphan. Others in the apartment, including children, were wounded, and civil defence crews struggled to evacuate them, all of it a year into a ceasefire that was supposed to stop exactly this

Hi everyone
I’m not sure if this is out of place here, but what are my fellow hair stylists using at work? I joined the beauty industry a few years ago because of my passion but have taken a step back as I never liked supporting big companies whose morals dont align with mine to begin with, much worse after everything that has happened, however I find that everything is owned by these conglomerates. While theres plenty of shows and places for us to network and learn about new brands where I live, I haven’t found people with similar values in this industry and find that so many of these “small planet-aware” brands are owned or funded by the same conglomerates and investing groups.
I believe whats safe is Keune, Davines and Paul Mitchell (though do correct me on these if Im wrong)
I’m asking specifically about color and chemical treatments though other recommendations are also appreciated

I wasn't aware what the language was but I bought it anyway and I when I told my sister about she asked me why I even bought that product and i should have known better because of the language.

Now I feel bad and, I know it was a mistake but it was mistake made in ignorance what do I do.

Edit: To add context this was product was in khoser aisle and I didn't fully understand if it was hebrew lettering so I decided to buy it add home and check official at home that's why my sister said I wasn't being very smart.

any recommendations for online purchasing alternative platforms appreciated

The world’s largest nursing union, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has cut ties with Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva over its links to the country’s military and a long record of corruption and bribery scandals.

Following the decision, the RCN removed Teva UK as a sponsor and partner of an upcoming event at the union’s headquarters in London.

Pro-Palestine groups hailed the move as “a major breakthrough” for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to isolate Israel over the Gaza genocide and its apartheid policies in the occupied West Bank.

The RCN, which represents nearly 600,000 nurses, acted after Nurses for Palestine and UK Healthcare Petitions to Royal Colleges (UKHPRC) campaigned against the partnership.

In a public letter, nurses, midwives and healthcare professionals warned that Teva UK is “entangled with the Israeli military, part of the institutional apparatus of apartheid and responsible for corporate malfeasance”.

The letter also criticised the RCN leadership’s invocation of “political neutrality” in response to previous attempts by members to “take a clear, principled stand on the ongoing genocide in Gaza”.

“Accepting commercial sponsorship from a corporate titan deeply woven into the Israeli state’s military apparatus, and its wartime mobilisation, is the very antithesis of neutrality,” the signatories wrote.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/worlds-largest-nursing-union-cuts-ties-israeli-drugmaker-teva

Hi,

I am in my twenties and I struggle with acne. La Roche Posay was the first brand that actually helped me minimise it.

Do you know any alternatives for these products:

- Effaclar cleansing gel

- Effaclar astrigent cleansing lotion

- Effaclar DUO+ SPF30

+ for the crispy winter weather, I have been using:

- Nutritic Intense Rich facecream,

which was the first cream that was heavy enough to give me comfort and protect me in winter, but also wouldn't block my pores.

Thank you sooo much in advance for any recommendations!

Honestly, why do people do this… I’m so tired of seeing these types of avatars

I’m still learning about certain boycotts and I’m not sure if target is on this list and see a lot of mixed opinions from different lists. I need something that I can only find at target but it’s a nonessential item

Looking for a company that isn't on the boycott list to purchase socks and underwear from

I got a chance to go to the UK, and I probably won’t get such a chance again. I don’t know if I should go, considering that it supports Israel. I can’t choose another country, either I go or I don’t

Hi! I will be travelling to London soon. I have to try my best to be on a gluten-free diet for health purposes. Can anyone recommend bakeries that are not Zionist owned?

I’ll be staying around Queensway or Bayswater if that helps! Hope I can get 1-2 options ❤️

"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?"
Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026
Nobel peace prize