"The board had voted down the divestment proposal because the endowment held no direct investments in the companies that protesters had named as facilitating Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory."
"Given the university's minimal and indirect financial exposure to those companies, it could not be directly responsible for social harm," Dr. Paxson and Mr. Moynihan wrote in a letter to the Brown community.
"Brown's mission is to discover, communicate and preserve knowledge. It is not to adjudicate or resolve global conflicts," Paxson and Moynihan stated.
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