The Middle East Eye website confirmed – today, Sunday – that Trinity College, affiliated with the University of Cambridge, has withdrawn its investments from all arms companies that Israel benefits from in its war on the Gaza Strip.
This comes after the website revealed last February that Trinity – which is the richest foundation college in Cambridge – invested more than $78,000 in the Israeli company Elbit Systems, which produces 85% of the drones and ground equipment used by the army. Occupation.
The website also mentioned that the college invested millions of dollars in other companies working to arm and support the Israeli war on Gaza and benefit from it, including Caterpillar, a heavy equipment company based in the United States that has long been the target of boycott campaigns for selling bulldozers to the Israeli army.
In response to the Middle East Eye report, the International Center for Justice for Palestinians on February 28 issued a legal notice to Trinity College warning that its investments could make it a potential complicit in Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
The Middle East Eye website learned from three informed sources close to the Trinity Student Union that the college council voted in favor of divesting the college from weapons companies in early last March.
1700 signatures
The website stated that last Thursday witnessed more than 1,700 employees, graduates and students from the university signing a letter to express their support for the demonstrators who set up a protest camp last week calling on the administration to end any possible complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza.
About 100 students gathered in the park outside King’s College in Cambridge last Monday, where they set up tents and demanded that the institution commit to divesting from companies involved in the Israeli war.
As a result, Trinity College announced that it would withdraw its investments from Israeli companies involved in the occupation of Palestine.
It is noteworthy that the Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University announced last Thursday the withdrawal of investments from all companies benefiting from the war in Gaza.