The University of Cambridge’s wealthiest constituent college, Trinity College Cambridge, has decided to divest from all arms companies, Middle East Eye can reveal.
MEE has learnt from three well-informed sources close to Trinity’s student union that the college council, responsible for major financial and other decisions, voted to remove Trinity’s investments from arms companies in early March.
According to the sources, the college decided not to announce that it would divest from arms companies after an activist defaced a 1914 portrait of Lord Arthur Balfour - who authored the infamous Balfour Declaration - inside the college on 8 March.
The point is ideological. The main objective is but to cause financial hurt, but to declare moral bankruptcy on the Israeli institutions.
It’s also financial
Just like Apartheid South Africa got crushed under boycotts so must israel be completely economically isolated until their Apartheid state seizes to exist.
Academic boycotts are important since israel, like the Nazis, relies heavily on technology to make up for its shortcomings in manpower.
The person I responded to showed that the financial goal is hard to reach. Like I said the point isn’t too cause financial harm per se, just to show and expose the moral deficit of the state.
The voor is that such a boycott will result, or the Israeli state changing is course (however unlikely).
The bottom line is it’s not too cause any harm at all, be it financial or physical, it’s about stopping the war and the way Palestinians are treated by the Israeli state.