Middle East studies in the News

Protest Ends with 'Whoops' [incl. Joel Beinin]

by Jack Stripling
Inside Higher Ed
September 14, 2009

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/14/israel

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8300

As of early Friday, everything was going according to plan.

A human rights activist group known as Adalah-NY had enlisted some of the most prominent progressives in academe to support its divestment campaign. The group aimed to put public pressure on TIAA-CREF, calling on the giant retirement fund manager to divest from Africa-Israel Investments Ltd., a company accused of building Jewish settlements on the West Bank. In an orchestrated media blitz, Adalah-NY launched an online petition, having already secured the endorsements of leftist luminaries like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. There was just one problem: TIAA-CREF had liquidated its holdings in Africa-Israel three months earlier.

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