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  • CONCESSIONS BY COLLEGES TO ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS

  • Harvard Concessions

  • Harvard interim president Alan Garber reached an agreement with the student protest group Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP). In exchange for an end to the encampment, Garber agreed to:

  • Facilitate a meeting with the chair of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and other university officials to address questions about the endowment

  • Meet, along with the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to hear students’s perspectives on academic matters related to the Middle East

  • Retract suspensions of students participating in the encampment and expedite reinstatement proceedings once the encampment was removed (note: the protest encampment was expanded to the graduation commencement lawn, with Garber warning that repercussions would become more consequential as graduation approached. In the end, Harvard prevented 15 students from graduating.)

  • Meet with members of the Harvard management company regarding disclosure about investments with Israeli companies and divestment from them

  • Discuss the establishment of a Center for Palestine Studies at Harvard

  • Northwestern's Concessions

  • Demonstrators reached a deal with President Michael Schill, Provost Kathleen Hagerty and Vice President of Student Affairs Susan Davis to end the encampment after five days of demonstrations. The university agreed to: 

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