Demand Chapman University to Divest from the Military Industrial Complex | SJP CHAPMAN
Demand Chapman University to Divest from the Military Industrial Complex | SJP CHAPMAN
The Issue
Divestment Statement
To the governing boards of Chapman University, Chapman students, and faculty,
We at Chapman University Students for Justice in Palestine are calling for a complete and total divestment from all weapon manufacturers and institutions that aid in the occupation of Palestine. This includes, but is not limited to, Aruba Networks, Lockheed Martin, and the Boeing Company.
Aruba Networks is our school’s wireless network provider. Aruba Networks is owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the company that split off from Hewlett Packard Inc. (HP) after the HP board determined that the companies would be more valuable after this split.
According to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement website, HP/HPE “provides and operates technology that Israel uses to maintain its system of apartheid, occupation, and settler colonialism over the Palestinian people.” For example, HP provides the Israeli government with its Itanium servers for the Aviv System, which is used to impose racial segregation against the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Its “Yesha database” collects information on Israeli citizens living in illegal settlements in the West Bank. The Aviv System is core to Israel’s ID card system, which privileges Israel’s Jewish population over the Palestinians living in the region. Since 2009, HP has had an exclusive contract with the IDF (who we refer to as the Israeli Occupation Forces, IOF, due to their enforcement of the settler-colony’s occupation), providing the military responsible for countless war crimes and the continued oppression of the Palestinian people with computers and technology.
Chapman University started a business partnership with Aruba in 2019, when the company implemented its ClearPass system throughout the Chapman network. There are many other high-speed network providers available today that the university could switch to, including but not limited to Ubiquiti Networks, which does not actively support the apartheid state like other companies such as Cisco, D-Link, and Aruba actively do. There is no excuse for supporting a company that profits from the oppression and genocide of the Palestinian people.
Another company supporting the genocide is Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest weapons manufacturer. Lockheed Martin supplies Israel with billions of dollars in military equipment and training. This equipment includes F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, which Israel uses to bomb Gaza, and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, which are one of the main weapons used in the aerial bombings of Gaza. Lockheed Martin also supplies Israel with the C-130 Hercules Transport Planes and the CH-53K King Stallion Aircrafts, which are used by the IOF for their ground assault on Gaza.
Additionally, the Boeing Company supplies the IOF with a variety of weapons, including fighter jets, attack helicopters, bombs, and Joint Direct Attack Munition Kits, which allow these bombs to be guided.
Chapman University must follow the academic boycott laid out by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). Programs that justify the Israeli occupation, such as study abroad programs in Israel, birthright participation, and Chapman’s BUS 303 class Israel: Business Innovation and Culture, must be brought to an immediate halt.
Our school must also properly implement and uphold anti-discrimination policies, especially for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students. Action must be taken against students that threaten and/or harm these students. Chapman’s failure to uphold and protect its students has created an environment where students are terrified to be on campus.
Our administration must publicly call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Palestine. Refusal to call for a ceasefire means that Chapman University is complicit with the war crimes in Palestine by Israel.
Chapman must divest from companies that invest in and support the ongoing genocide in Gaza. These companies should not be allowed on campus in any form, including on-campus recruitment, internships & partnerships, and campus facilities (through Aruba Networks). To all the governing boards of Chapman University: divest from Israeli Occupation TODAY.
Until Full Liberation,
Chapman University Students for Justice in Palestine
1,769
The Issue
Divestment Statement
To the governing boards of Chapman University, Chapman students, and faculty,
We at Chapman University Students for Justice in Palestine are calling for a complete and total divestment from all weapon manufacturers and institutions that aid in the occupation of Palestine. This includes, but is not limited to, Aruba Networks, Lockheed Martin, and the Boeing Company.
Aruba Networks is our school’s wireless network provider. Aruba Networks is owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the company that split off from Hewlett Packard Inc. (HP) after the HP board determined that the companies would be more valuable after this split.
According to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement website, HP/HPE “provides and operates technology that Israel uses to maintain its system of apartheid, occupation, and settler colonialism over the Palestinian people.” For example, HP provides the Israeli government with its Itanium servers for the Aviv System, which is used to impose racial segregation against the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Its “Yesha database” collects information on Israeli citizens living in illegal settlements in the West Bank. The Aviv System is core to Israel’s ID card system, which privileges Israel’s Jewish population over the Palestinians living in the region. Since 2009, HP has had an exclusive contract with the IDF (who we refer to as the Israeli Occupation Forces, IOF, due to their enforcement of the settler-colony’s occupation), providing the military responsible for countless war crimes and the continued oppression of the Palestinian people with computers and technology.
Chapman University started a business partnership with Aruba in 2019, when the company implemented its ClearPass system throughout the Chapman network. There are many other high-speed network providers available today that the university could switch to, including but not limited to Ubiquiti Networks, which does not actively support the apartheid state like other companies such as Cisco, D-Link, and Aruba actively do. There is no excuse for supporting a company that profits from the oppression and genocide of the Palestinian people.
Another company supporting the genocide is Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest weapons manufacturer. Lockheed Martin supplies Israel with billions of dollars in military equipment and training. This equipment includes F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, which Israel uses to bomb Gaza, and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, which are one of the main weapons used in the aerial bombings of Gaza. Lockheed Martin also supplies Israel with the C-130 Hercules Transport Planes and the CH-53K King Stallion Aircrafts, which are used by the IOF for their ground assault on Gaza.
Additionally, the Boeing Company supplies the IOF with a variety of weapons, including fighter jets, attack helicopters, bombs, and Joint Direct Attack Munition Kits, which allow these bombs to be guided.
Chapman University must follow the academic boycott laid out by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). Programs that justify the Israeli occupation, such as study abroad programs in Israel, birthright participation, and Chapman’s BUS 303 class Israel: Business Innovation and Culture, must be brought to an immediate halt.
Our school must also properly implement and uphold anti-discrimination policies, especially for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students. Action must be taken against students that threaten and/or harm these students. Chapman’s failure to uphold and protect its students has created an environment where students are terrified to be on campus.
Our administration must publicly call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Palestine. Refusal to call for a ceasefire means that Chapman University is complicit with the war crimes in Palestine by Israel.
Chapman must divest from companies that invest in and support the ongoing genocide in Gaza. These companies should not be allowed on campus in any form, including on-campus recruitment, internships & partnerships, and campus facilities (through Aruba Networks). To all the governing boards of Chapman University: divest from Israeli Occupation TODAY.
Until Full Liberation,
Chapman University Students for Justice in Palestine
1,769
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Petition created on April 19, 2024