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Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine held a rally in the Yard Monday afternoon to call on Harvard to divest its holdings in companies "complicit" in human rights abuses against Palestinians, reported by The Harvard Crimson.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Protesters chanted phrases like “Free, free Palestine,” “No more money for Israel’s crimes,” and “No peace on stolen land” as they marched from the John Harvard Statue to Widener Library before concluding at Massachusetts Hall.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Outside of Massachusetts Hall, organizers from HOOP and other activist groups, including the Ethnic Studies Coalition and Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign, gave speeches in front of a crowd of roughly 60 protesters and spectators and delivered a letter to University President Lawrence S. Bacow’s office in the building.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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HOOP is a student activist group established last year that calls on the University to disclose and divest all indirect and direct holdings in companies tied to Israel’s presence in Palestine.<\/span>
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Organizers specifically criticized the Harvard endowment’s investments in companies including Motorola, which provided “virtual fences” that detect human movement used in some Israeli settlements; G4S, a security company that provided equipment to Israel’s military; and Caterpillar Inc., which manufactured bulldozers that have been used to destroy Palestinian homes.<\/span><\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2021-11-16 09:07:57","content_date_finish":"2021-11-16 09:07:57","content_date_register":"2021-11-16 09:17:47","content_date_last_edit":"2021-11-16 09:17:47","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2615609858","attach_date_register":"2021-11-16 09:17:29","attach_id":"497033","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"1500","attach_img_height":"1000","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"1","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"591","visit_date_last":"2025-05-08 22:46:26","attach_title":"Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine protests for divestment in Israel-linked companies\n 2","node_title":"news,BDS,Social,Latest news,America","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53},{\"node_id\":127, \"left\":11, \"right\":12},{\"node_id\":138, \"left\":35, \"right\":36},{\"node_id\":144, \"left\":49, \"right\":50},{\"node_id\":147, \"left\":55, \"right\":56}]"}]]