As part of our continuing series on BDS and its impact on the art world, we received the following response to curator Manon Slome’s “A Response to the Call to Boycott Israel” by artist Doris Bittar.

Protest divestment is a form of dissent in which stockholders intentionally sell their assets from a corporation to enact social change. Protesters hope to influence corporations against performing ...

The fact that Palestine is home to the highest number of child amputees in the world makes this marketing choice even more ...

The answer: It is both, so that divestment will be a central theme of Earth Day 2017. Note that current world oil consumption and production are around 98 million barrels per day (mmbd). The ...

Divesting from major firms that do business with Israel could cost New York City pension funds and taxpayers more than $37 billion over the next decade, claims a new report released Wednesday. Mayor ...

One day before its meeting earlier this month, the University of Washington Board of Regents postponed a highly consequential item that was on its agenda: a vote related to an Israel divestment ...

As pro-Palestinian progressives find some success at the 2026 ballot box, the long-gestating Israel divestment campaign is looking to capitalize in Rhode Island. Voters in Providence, the state ...

The right to free speech is the cornerstone of any democracy, allowing for open dissent and criticism of the institutions that affect us daily. In the past, students at the University have exercised ...

Last month, Rhode Island School of Design Students for Justice in Palestine presented an Israel divestment proposal to members of RISD’s Board of Trustees. The board plans to “share their thoughts” on ...

Vincent Lloyd '03 insists that he does not deliver a message of intolerance or prejudice when he talks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his commitment to the campaign to divest University ...

College campuses can sometimes plant the seeds for dramatic shifts in public policy. This was most evident in the 1980s, when students across the country protested apartheid in South Africa. By ...