{"id":732,"date":"2025-02-26T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:40:34","slug":"students-protest-nyu-investments-outside-trustees-finance-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/students-protest-nyu-investments-outside-trustees-finance-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Students protest NYU investments outside trustees\u2019 finance meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Around 20 students picketed outside NYU\u2019s Finance Committee meeting run by the board of trustees on Tuesday, where they demanded that the university divest from companies with ties to Israel amid <\/span>tenuous ceasefire negotiations<\/span><\/a> between Israel and Hamas following the war in Gaza.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The picket, organized by NYU\u2019s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, took place outside the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World on 84th Street. Protesters approached the trustees \u2014 each accompanied by four to five Campus Safety officers \u2014 as they left the building, asking them to briefly meet with students to discuss the school\u2019s investments. Hamza, an NYU Law student at the demonstration, told WSN that while he approached trustees \u201ccivilly,\u201d they still dismissed his requests.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTrustees are being escorted out by gaggles of officers as if they\u2019re expecting to be mugged or something,\u201d Hamza said. \u201cIt\u2019s a shame to see this kind of refusal to conversation, especially when the protesters have been portrayed as irrational and rabid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Four police officers observed as the group circled the building\u2019s entrance while chanting, \u201cTrustees, trustees, look at me, we will fight till Gaza\u2019s free\u201d and \u201cTrustees, what trust have you earned, windows shut while Gaza burns.\u201d Around an hour into the protest, students and faculty were unable to enter the building through its turnstiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

After several trustees, not including President Linda Mills, left through the front door, the protesters dispersed. Hamza cited allegations that Mills had <\/span>maintained close relations with a parent<\/span><\/a> who has repeatedly called for the university to reprimand pro-Palestinian protesters \u2014 criticizing that students had not received similar transparency in communication from the university president.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMyself and other students have sent multiple emails requesting meetings with the administration, and have been ignored,\u201d Hamza said. \u201cStudents don\u2019t know how else to prompt this conversation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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