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Divestment Protests Won’t Succeed - Commentary

Adam Gjesdal, a postdoctoral fellow at the Heterodox Academy’s Center for Academic Pluralism, writes: 

As campuses come back to life this fall, many pro-Palestinian students will resume their protests from the spring against Israel’s war on Hamas. Once again they will demand that their colleges divest from Israel. These campus protesters often have their hearts in the right place: They want to alleviate what they consider to be unjustified, extensive suffering among a civilian population. Their demands, however, are impractical — for both legal and financial reasons.


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