University Of California Riverside Did Not Fully Divest From Israel

Misbar investigated the claim and found it to be misleading. UCR agreed to explore the possibility of endowment, not to fully divest from Israel.

An Agreement To Explore The Possibility Of Endowment

The administration of the University of California Riverside reached an agreement with the leaders of the student encampment on Friday, May 3. The agreement was to “explore the possibility of UCR's endowment to be removed from the management of the UC Investments Office,” as reported by CBS News, not to fully divest or to end study abroad programs.

On Monday, April 28, students began pro-Palestine sit-in at UCR, demanding that the university disclose its investments and funding and that it divest from companies and institutions complicit in the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide of Palestinians.

Allazeera reported that UCR’s School of Business has discontinued multiple global programmes, including those in Israel. The university also said it would review the banning of the sale of Sabra Hummus, a packaged hummus brand owned by PepsiCo and the Israel-based Strauss Group, as the demand of the students.

Universities Reaching Agreements With Pro-Palestine Protesters

Beside University of California Riverside, multiple universities have reached agreements with student protesters, promising to grant or explore some demands in exchange for the dismantling of protesters' encampments as graduation approaches.

Protesters' demands vary by school, though they generally call for an end to the Gaza war, disclosures of institutional investments and divestment from companies with ties to Israel or that otherwise profit from its military operation in Gaza.

Northwestern University was the first school to reach an agreement with the protesters last week, followed quickly by Brown, Rutgers, Johns Hopkins, the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Riverside. With these agreements, the administrations of the universities managed to calm down the tensions.

However, no university committed to divest from Israel until now. Some universities just said that they would explore the divestment like Northern University and UCR, or that the divestment proposal is under review like Rutgers University. Nonetheless, several universities promised to limit disciplinary action against students, among other commitments and pledged scholarships or aid for Palestinian students and improved space for Muslim students on campus.

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