{"id":54407,"date":"2024-05-11T20:44:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=54407"},"modified":"2024-05-11T20:44:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:14:15","slug":"irish-college-agrees-to-divest-from-israeli-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/54407\/irish-college-agrees-to-divest-from-israeli-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish college agrees to divest from Israeli firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Following a five-day encampment at the campus of Ireland&#8217;s prestigious Trinity College Dublin TCD in solidarity with Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip, students on Wednesday ended their rally when university administration announced that it had agreed with their demand of divesting from Israeli companies, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn agreement was reached\u201d after \u201csuccessful talks between the university&#8217;s senior management and the protestors,\u201d said the university in a statement posted on its website, meaning that TCD would no longer have ties with Israeli firms.<\/p>\n<p>In response to TCD\u2019s agreement with the student demand, which is echoing similar moves on US campuses, Laszlo Molnarfi, president of the institution\u2019s student union, said the university\u2019s statement was a \u201ctestament to grassroots student-staff power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, university campuses across the United States have also become the battleground for demonstrations against Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, resulting in a series of tense and violent encounters.<\/p>\n<p>The students are calling for an end to Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza and demanding schools divest from companies that support the Israeli regime.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has killed more than\u00a034,844\u00a0people, 70 percent of whom women and children, in Gaza since early October, according to the Gaza\u00a0health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a five-day encampment at the campus of Ireland&#8217;s prestigious Trinity College Dublin TCD in solidarity with Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip, students on Wednesday ended their rally when university administration announced that it had agreed with their demand of divesting from Israeli companies, Press TV reported. \u201cAn agreement was reached\u201d after \u201csuccessful talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}