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Swarthmore rejects SGO resolution in favor of divestment from Israel

https://www.swarthmore.edu/presidents-office/regarding-student-government-resolution

SJP Announces New BDS Campaign

https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2018/10/25/sjp-bds/

The actual statement? Try to find if possible: https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2018/10/25/swarthmore-college-divest-from-israeli-apartheid-now/

https://www.facebook.com/SwarthmoreSJP/photos/a.297741237011214/1843170809134908/?__cft__[0]=AZV1h96aaGrd7AhHTsgvp6fOrYz9xgmMCHy2URVmLQZLAQVM_8gs-0W4U4-7bEdVE2CCJkypdnyiqSNvyHoBjdnP_lDmwYpcVffRPY_6V8V6AjCfDDtJh2C9-fmQVhwm7K4U9-hnIMIEDhPPzqB1zFwi&__tn__=EH-R

https://www.facebook.com/272995506152454/videos/2254468577928726

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=120820112192747

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/10/10/sjp-announced-bds-campaign

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/10/24/swarthmore-college-divest-from-israeli-apartheid-now

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/11/20/interfaith-center-interns-letter-of-support-for-bds-campaign

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/5/sisa-letter-of-support-for-sjp

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/4/sass-board-letter-of-support-for-bds-campaign

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/12/aja-letter-of-solidarity-with-bds-and-sjp

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/13/statement-of-solidarity-for-bds-from-swarthmores-ydsa

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/5/ic-intern-bds-letter-of-support

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/10/sao-letter-of-solidarity-for-bds

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/11/star-solidarity-with-bds-the-carceral-state-knows-no-bounds

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/10/colors-solidarity-letter-for-bds

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/4/wocka-letter-of-support-for-bds-campaign

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/11/19/muslim-students-association-letter-of-support-for-bds-campaign

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/10/colors-solidarity-letter-for-bds

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/3/swarthmore-queer-union-letter-of-support-for-bds-campaign

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/12/10/swatdoulas-statement-of-solidarity-with-sjp-bds

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/4/3/interfaith-interns-letter-of-solidarity-with-sjp

Letter in support of Swarthmore SJP students, their BDS campaign, and all students fighting for a just world

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/swarthmore-students-fighting/

https://www.facebook.com/SwarthmoreSJP/posts/2064797673638886

Students deliver over 1,000 petition signatures to President Smith, urging Swarthmore College to divest from Israeli apartheid.

https://www.facebook.com/272995506152454/videos/325488284847540

https://www.facebook.com/events/2140345932943976/

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc28RHWiE2coQ2o7anu0OD0gaTNi25t21zdfeSmri_HMPn72A/viewform?fbclid=IwAR3_66ec42qnpEjO9WZp-rgF3y9_dRoGkzNDGuhXpKP983jX_v94Nw4EM9w

https://fb.watch/4P3W9LB0e0/

After Revote, SGO Announces Support for Board’s Divestment from Israel

https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2019/03/07/after-revote-sgo-announces-support-for-boards-divestment-from-israel/

https://www.facebook.com/SwarthmoreSJP/posts/2051990511586269

Students for Transformative Justice, Abolition, and Reform releases its statement

https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2018/5/1/stepping-out-of-the-shadows-into-the-light-standing-for-transformative-justice-abolition-and-reform

Know the Ban, Ban the Ban II

https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2021/03/19/know-the-ban-ban-the-ban-ii-duplicitous-ban/

Mountain Justice calls for an escalation of the fossil fuel divestment campaign

https://swatoverlaps.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/volume-8-issue-1/

https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2013/04/19/op-ed-no-more-business-as-usual/

Have this acompanying doc: https://swatmountainjustice.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/fossil-fuel-divestment-101_may-2013.pdf

After SGO referendum, board still votes “no”

https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2017/02/23/after-sgo-referendum-board-still-votes-no/

https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2017/02/23/mountain-justice-wins-referendum-in-landslide-board-rejects-partial-divestment/

https://www.swarthmore.edu/presidents-office/feb-22-2017

The Board of Managers adopts the ban on ethical divestment

The ban, part of the endowment fund’s “Statement of Investment Objectives and Policies,” states: “As a matter of policy, the Investment Committee manages the endowment to yield the best long term financial results, rather than to pursue other social objectives.”

• Divestment from arms manufacturers (2001)
• Divestment from companies involved in the Israeli apartheid state and occupation of Palestine (2009, 2019)
• Ending the ban (2018)

Little public information about the ban and its adoption exists. The date of the ban’s adoption is not known. The Board did not offer a rationale for instituting the ban because it did so in secret. Even the investment policy which contains the ban is not publicly available.

Almost everything known publicly about the ban comes from explanations of the policy by administrators and Board members. Those explanations are short on details and sometimes contradictory.

(find more swat sources about this b/c, of course, the ban itself isn’t available nor is contemporary sources about its adoption).

https://sites.sccs.swarthmore.edu/divestmentdocuments/2020/10/05/swarthmore-college-endowment-fund-statement-of-objectives-and-policies-1997/