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    You are at:Home»Local News»Protestors demand answers from K-State on financial relationship with Israel

    Protestors demand answers from K-State on financial relationship with Israel

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    By Peter Rice on May 2, 2024 Local News
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    A protest was held on Kansas State’s campus Wednesday evening as demonstrators vocalized their anger with the U.S. involvement in the Israel-Palestine war.

    The K-State Young Democratic Socialists of America, YDSA, also demanded earlier this week for K-State President Richard Linton to resign from the Binational Agricultural Research and Development foundation because he accepted various grants from Israel.

    K-State YDSA — which is a part of the Democratic Socialists of a America, the largest socialist organization in the United States — asked the university to disclose its investment portfolio from the year 2014 and onward. The organization said it wants K-State to be transparent about its investments and to end investments in companies that support Israel.

    “It is imperative that K-State divests in companies listed in the Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions (BDS) Movement, which are recognized for their role in human rights violations,” the students wrote. “We will not stand idly by while our institution profits from or contributes to the suffering of the Palestinian people.”

    According to the BDS list, large companies including Google, Amazon and HP support Israel.

    The event saw protestors march across campus where crowd members would chant and give speeches.

    Similar protests have been occurring at college and university campuses across the U.S. in recent weeks.

    Read more on the group’s demands at themercury.com.

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