University investments

Leeds becomes the first UK University to divest from companies complicit with the Israeli military by Yousef Abdul-Fattah & Evie Russell-Cohen (Leeds Uni PSG) The divestment decision has been hailed as a win for Palestinians and the BDS movement with student groups across the country replicating this campaign. Following an intense BDS campaign by the […]

Recently, Jamal Khashoggi’s horrific death has meant that the UK-Saudi relationship has come under scrutiny; unfortunately much more than the scrutiny that has come with the death and destruction of the lives of millions in Yemen, and the ongoing human rights abuses for those living and working in Saudi Arabia and those affected by Saudi […]

From 7th-9th September, CAAT joined other organisers and groups in the National Student Activist Weekender, held at (the v cute!) Besson St Community Gardens. The weekend consisted of various organising groups and liberation campaigns (within campuses and beyond) coming together to contribute on how we collectively build a united student movement. Discussions and workshops on […]

The conference On the 1st and 2nd September, students from across the UK came together at Manchester University Student Union to collaborate and organise in their demands for their universities to stop arming, funding and supporting Israel’s ongoing occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land, human rights abuses, and breaking of international law. The educational weekend […]

From Friday 26th Oct – Sunday 28th Oct, CAAT Unis joined peace organisers across Europe in an organising weekend named ‘Don’t militarize me!’ at the University of Kassel in Germany. Groups such as DFG-VK, IPPNW, ICAN, JunepA and ICAN came together to share the various ways in which they were working on anti-militarism. We delivered […]

Students at both University College London (UCL) and Newcastle University have pushed their campaigns for arms trade divestment forwards through motions of support at their students unions. Disarm UCL, which re-formed only recently, managed to get a motion passed unanimously in their student union. The motion calls for UCL to cut research and consultancy ties with […]

Last Monday, students from Demilitarise King’s disrupted King’s College London’s (KCL) high profile launch of their ‘2029 Vision’. They drew attention to the hypocrisy of an event celebrating a strategic plan that aims “to make the world a better place”, while continuing to show support for the arms trade as a prestigious institution through it’s […]

UCL student campaigners won a “tremendous victory” for human rights this week, when their student union passed a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) motion. The motion was passed with a 67% majority, after a “riveting” debate at a UCL student union council meeting. The Union is now mandated to cut ties with corporate entities directly contributing […]

After a successful campaign by the University of Liverpool Friends of Palestine (ULFOP) and CAAT groups, students voted in support of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) policy in a preferendum last week. The Liverpool Guild of Students now officially supports the Palestinian-led BDS movement and has a mandate to lobby the university to do the […]