The Columbia Protests and the Economics of Divestment | Ones and Tooze Ep. 137 | An FP Podcast

With students at Columbia and other universities across the United States demanding that their schools divest from Israel over the war in Gaza, Adam and Cameron discuss the economic angle: endowments, investments, and billionaire donors.
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[@Jensth]

7:28 "more unconventional backgrounds". What do you mean by that? People who are poor? Thats not "unconventional" in USA. Thats half the population.

[@PoPoSharikov]

Pathetic.

[@jasongray4517]

Could Adam Tooze be less empathetic towards the Jewish community, including his own university's Jewish undergraduates and faculty members? Columbia University is one of the world's great centres of Jewish learning and yet here is an academic who referred to 7 October as a "military action". Not a pogrom, the worst pogrom in actual fact since the Holocaust, but a "military action". He would have us believe that demonstrations on campus have been entirely peaceful and in no way antisemitic, despite overwhelming, documented evidence to the contrary.