Ireland's Leading University Divests from Arms Companies Complicit with Apartheid Israel
News - Middle East: Trinity College, Ireland's leading university, has announced that it no longer has investments in arms and weapons companies that are complicit with the Israeli apartheid regime.
According to Trinity News, the move comes following a petition launched by the Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS), which had reached 446 signatures as of Tuesday, alongside Trinity College, Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) last year.
The petition called for Trinity to “divest from the war industry.”
In a press release, Trinity BDS said, “Trinity has €2.5 million invested in arms and weapons companies across the world, as revealed by a Freedom of Information request made by the chairperson of Students4Change László Molnárfi last year.”
“This includes companies which manufacture arms or security technologies used by ... Israel to carry out ethnic cleansing and implement apartheid against the Palestinian people, such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies and BAE Systems,” the release continued.
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