Recent Campus BDS Victories

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a global movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against the Zionist entity. Based on a similar campaign waged against apartheid South Africa, BDS is designed to pressure the Zionist entity to withdraw from the occupied territories (1967 borders), remove the separation barriers in the West Bank, grant full and equal citizenship for Arab Palestinians living within the Zionist entity, and acknowledging the right of Palestinian refugees to return. The following universities across Turtle Island have either passed BDS resolutions, or successfully divested from the Zionist entity:

2022 - Case Western Reserve University (divestment)

2022 - University of Houston (divestment)

2022 - McGill University (divestment)

2022 - University of Toronto (divestment)

2022 - Concordia University (anti-Apartheid Referendum)

2022 - University of British Columbia (divestment)

2021 - University of Houston (resolution affirming Palestinian rights)

2021 - Seattle University (calls on the university to stand in solidarity against the unjust treatment of Palestinians and reexamine its investment portfolio and divest from companies complicit in human rights and international law violations)

2021 - Northwestern University (calls on university to issue a solidarity statement for Palestinian and Muslim students)

2020 - Columbia University (BDS referendum)

2020 - Fresno State University (divestment resolution)

2020 - University of Illinois- Urbana Champagne (divestment resolution)

2020 - Tufts University (referendum ending deadly exchange with Israel)

2019 - New York University (academic boycott)

2019 - Swarthmore College (divestment)

2019 - Occidental College (divestment)

2019 - Brown University (divestment referendum)

2019 - Pitzer College (academic boycott resolution); vetoed by university president

2019 - Williams' College (academic boycott against establishment of Zionist student organization)

2019 - Brown University (advisory committee divestment)**

2019 - Columbia University (divestment resolution)

2018 - University of Manchester (boycott)

2018 - University of Minnesota (all campuses) (divestment)

2018 - University of Michigan – Flint (divestment)

2018 - Barnard College (divestment)

2018 - George Washington University (divestment)

2018 - California State University – East Bay (divestment)

2018 - University of Oregon (BDS)

2018 - New York University (divestment)

2017 - University of South Florida (divestment referendum)

2017 - DeAnza Community College (divestment)

2017 - Tufts University (divestment)

2017 - Claremont Colleges – Pitzer (boycott)

2017 - University of Wisconsin – Madison (divestment)

2017 - California State University – Long Beach (divestment)

2017 - University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (divestment)

2016 - University of South Florida (divestment)

2016 - University of Illinois - Chicago (divestment)

2016 - Rutgers University - Newark (divestment)

2016 - Vassar College (BDS support resolution)

2016 - University of Chicago (divestment)

2016 - University of Minnesota (divestment)

2016 - Graduate Students Union, University of Massachusetts – Amherst (GEO-UAW #2322) (BDS)

2016 - City University of New York - Doctoral Students Council (BDS)

2016 - New York University Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW #2110) (BDS)

2016 - University of California – Merced (divestment)

2016 - University of Indianapolis (divestment)

2016 - University of Wisconsin – Madison Teaching Assistants' Association (TAA/AFT Local #3220) (divestment)

2016 - Evergreen State College (reaffirmed boycott, see 2010 below)

2016 - Portland State University (divestment)

2016 - Manchester University (BDS)

2016 - University of Washington

2015 - University of California – Davis (divestment): the bill was invalidated by a judicial opinion, then officially re-passed on May 28, 2015.

2015 - University of California Student Association (divestment)

2015 - Stanford University (divestment)

2015 - Northwestern University (divestment)

2015 - University of Toledo (divestment)

2015 - Loyola University – Chicago (divestment)

2015 - University of Toledo referendum wins 57% of vote

2015 - Columbia University (divestment): CU Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing endorsed divestment from the private prison industry, including Palestinian BDS target G4S.

2015 - San Diego State University referendum wins majority support (but falls short of 2/3)

2015 - Earlham College (divestment)

2015 - University of California – Riverside (Sabra boycott): partially reversed, updated vote in 2017

2015 - Princeton University (divestment referendum)

2015 - Oglethorpe University

2015 - San Jose State University

2015 - University of California – Santa Cruz: overturns illegal nullification of prior divestment victory

2014- Wesleyan University (divestment)

2014 - University of California – Riverside (divestment)

2014 - University of New Mexico Graduate & Professional Student Association (divestment)

2014 - DePaul University (divestment referendum)

2014 - University of California – Santa Cruz (majority vote for divestment)

2014 - United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) endorsement of BDS

2014 - University of California – Los Angeles (divestment)

2014 - University of California Student-Workers Union (UAW #2865) (full BDS referendum)

2013 - University of California – Irvine (divestment)

2013 - University of California – San Diego (divestment)

2013 - University of California – Berkeley (divestment)

2013 - Oberlin College (divestment)

2012 - Earlham College (Sabra boycott)

2012 - Evergreen State College (product boycott)

2012 - Arizona State University (divestment)

2012 - National MEChA endorsement of BDS (divestment)

2012 - University of Massachusetts – Boston (divestment)

2011 - DePaul University (Sabra boycott)

2010 - University of California – Berkeley (divestment receives majority vote, but is vetoed)

2009 - Hampshire College (divestment)*

2005 - University of Michigan – Dearborn (divestment) (again in 2010)

2005 - Howard University (divestment)

2005 - University of Wisconsin - Whitewater Faculty Senate (divestment)

2005 - Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (divestment) (again in 2008)

2003 - Wayne State University (divestment)

(This list is likely missing some victories prior to 2012)

*Hampshire’s divestment has been implemented. Other successes on this list represent votes calling for university divestment.
**Brown University's Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies (ACCRIP) has voted in favor of implementation of divestment months after President Christina Paxson's rejection of a successful student divestment referendum in Spring 2019, now awaiting further administrative response.