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Students press Regents to divest from defense contractors; campus tensions over antisemitism raised
Summary
Multiple public commenters urged the Regents to divest UC investments in firms tied to weapons manufacturing and criticized holdings in BlackRock, Blackstone, Lockheed Martin and Elbit Systems; other speakers urged stronger enforcement of campus policies to protect Jewish students and adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
Speakers during the public-comment period urged the University of California to divest retirement- and endowment-related holdings in firms they said are complicit in humanitarian harm. One commenter cited holdings of approximately $163 million in BlackRock and substantial investments in Blackstone, and named Lockheed Martin and Elbit Systems as examples of companies the…
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