Union Theological Seminary votes to divest from companies profiting from Gaza war
Brown Memorial Tower at Union Theological Seminary in New York. (Photo by Chris06/Wikimedia/Creative Commons)
Union Theological Seminary’s board of trustees voted Thursday to divest from all companies profiting off the war in Gaza.
Union, a private, ecumenical school, shares a graduate studies program with Columbia University but is independent and maintains a separate, $127 million endowment, is the first US institute of higher education known to divest from the war in Gaza.
“We do it with humility and we do it with a sense of moral conviction,” said Union’s president, Serene Jones.
