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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Pro-Palestinian students raise questions about university investments
Description: At her graduation last month, Jenin Alharithi walked onto stage and unfurled a banner with a message for University of Illinois leaders: Divest from genocide.
Alharithi s one of thousands of students across the country demanding their universities stop investing in companies doing business with Israel because of the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
It’s a controversial ask – some supporters of Israel find the whole concept offensive.
But it got W-B-E-Z higher education reporter Lisa Kurian Philip thinking: What do universities invest in, and why? Host: Mary Dixon