The Student Government of Loyola Chicago (SGLC) passed divestment for a third time in two years but this time the SGLC President signed and endorsed the resolution on March 31.

Divestment is a term that has been attracting an immense amount of attention on campuses across the nation and now Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Marquette University in Wisconsin has joined the movement.

In the coming weeks, Loyola University Chicago’s undergraduate student senate will vote on a resolution that urges the university to remove its investments from corporations involved in human rights violations. Specifically, these corporations profit from and directly contribute to human rights abuses perpetrated against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

We are Palestinian undergraduate students at Northwestern University. We may be few in number, but solidarity from our sisters and brothers in other communities has given us strength and, ultimately, a victory, in the form of the passage of a divestment resolution on on Feb. 18th. 

When you first walk into Marquette University’s Alumni Memorial Union, the first thing you notice is the diverse collection of the world’s flags hanging above. The flags’ purpose is to bring together and unify the spirits of the students, staff and faculty on the university’s campus. It did not take long for Marquette’s Palestinian students to notice that the Palestinian flag was missing.