Cornell is no stranger to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign aimed at Israel.

The Cornell Review reports.

Cornell Students Renew Call for Israel Divestment

The Cornell Daily Sun recently featured an opinion piece written by three students calling on Cornell to divest its endowment from Israeli companies.

Like many other universities across the globe, Cornell is no stranger to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign aimed at Israel. In the spring of 2014, an actual resolution calling for divestment was brought to the Student Assembly, but it was tabled.

This op-ed, however, renews the call at Cornell after the Board of Trustees adopted new guidelines for determining what to do with university endowment investments that are politically contentious or inspire the wrath of Cornell’s student and faculty body. These new guidelines allow for divestment when a company’s actions are found to be “morally reprehensible” and were used to reject a call for divestment from the fossil fuel industry.