Read the full People's Resolution:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/159TyQaHKmBoa79tNCC-TUetplk8tr2ZI4wLlTdrKFx4/edit?usp=sharing

WE DEMAND:

Northwestern University must stop supporting Israeli apartheid and occupation. We, students, staff, and community members demand that Northwestern

1. PROTECT STUDENT CIVIL LIBERTIES AND SAFETY 

American academic institutions have become hostile spaces for anti-war, anti-apartheid, and pro-Palestine speech. Northwestern University is no exception, curtailing speech and intimidating students and educators. We call on President Schill to condemn the targeted harassment of students and the disproportionate censorship of pro-Palestine speech, to affirm and protect student civil liberties, and to build a safe environment for intellectual and political expression.

2. END PARTNERSHIPS THAT LEGITIMIZE GENOCIDE AND OCCUPATION

Through academic partnerships such as the Israel Innovation Project (IIP), Northwestern contributes to the legitimation of occupation and genocide, and of the large apparatus of propaganda, white-washing, and scholasticide that support it. The IIP routinely platforms right-wing Zionist officials, including former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, who openly endorses ethnic cleansing. Furthermore, as a STEM partnership, the IIP is complicit in strengthening the Israeli military-industrial complex and its capacity for surveillance and AI-powered apartheid. We demand that Northwestern University immediately cease the IIP and other collaborations with Israeli institutions that maintain and support apartheid and that it take a public stance for a permanent ceasefire. 

3. DISCLOSE AND DIVEST FROM WAR AND APARTHEID

The Northwestern administration chooses to hide its direct and managed investments, failing its own commitments to transparency and accountability. Students, faculty, staff, and other stewards of the university’s success ask that our tuition, labor, care, and trust not be misused to enrich institutions and companies that support and maintain apartheid, occupation, and the oppression of the Palestinian people. We demand that Northwestern divest from all defense stocks and investments and from all companies that support Israeli apartheid. To this end, we demand that all future investment decisions be made with input from a recurring committee of students, staff, and community stakeholders.   

Signed,

NU Educators for Justice in Palestine

NU Students for Justice in Palestine

NU Jewish Voice for Peace