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Palestine

College, SJP and JVP protestors announce agreement to consider divestment, encampment will come down

May 7, Occidental president Harry J. Elam Jr. announced via email to the college community that the administration reached an agreement with Occidental Students...

Four Occidental students arrested at UCLA pro-Palestinian encampment

Four Occidental students were arrested at UCLA early May 2 when the Los Angeles Police Departmet cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment, according to Occidental Students...

Oxy SJP and Oxy JVP stage encampment for Palestine, plan to stay ‘as long as possible’

April 29, 4 a.m., Occidental Students for Justice in Palestine (Oxy SJP) and Occidental Jewish Voice for Peace (Oxy JVP) assembled an encampment of...

Letter to the Editor: To divest from Israel is to invest in ignorance

Occidental made the correct decision not to divest from companies that do business in Israel, denying the request of Students for Justice in Palestine...

Board of Trustees rejects SJP’s request to divest from Israel

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Finance, Planning and Operations Amos Himmelstein sent a campus-wide email Jan. 29 containing a statement from the...

NYT columnists offer an inaccurate interpretation of the Israel-Palestine question

President Donald Trump's White House presented its "Middle East Peace Plan" Jan. 27, the finished product of a three-year process overseen by his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Calling...

President Veitch and Vice President Amos Himmelstein, end Oxy’s complicity in Israeli apartheid

Dear President Veitch and VP Amos Himmelstein; We are a collective of students concerned about the possibility of Oxy’s unethical investments in companies complicit in...