EAST LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Students spoke out this Friday at the Michigan State University Board of Trustees meeting.
They’re asking the Board to withdraw MSU’s investments that support Israel.
The Hurriya Coalition is a group of 20 student organizations that are working to get the board to divest. They say they aren’t okay with the university having investments that support the State of Israel, as Israel continues its assault that has killed more than 25,000 in the Palestinian territory of Gaza.
This meeting comes a day after the students held a protest on the same issue .
“For far too long, Michigan State University has been complicit in the occupation and genocide of the Palestinian people through their investments into the State of Israel and weapons manufacturers,” according to a press release this week from the Hurriya Coalition.
“MSU profits off the destruction of Palestine and the death of the people living there,” it said.
The coalition in its press release also pointed to MSU’s divestment from South Africa in 1978 , during that country’s Apartheid regime.