8-3-2020 Manchesteruniversity divests from firms complicit in Israeli occupation - Asa Winstanley Electronic Intifada

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/manchester-university-divests-firms-complicit-israeli-occupation

The University of Manchester has divested more than $5 million from Caterpillar and the parent company of travel site Booking.com. Activists on Monday said it was "a colossal win for the Palestine solidarity movement in Britain."…Caterpillar supplies bulldozers to the Israeli army which are weaponized to destroy Palestinian homes and carry out extrajudicial killings. Booking Holdings Inc. is in the United Nations database of companies involved in Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank which was published earlier this year

Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

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