Trinity College Cambridge student union passes motion to divest from war on Gaza

The student union at Trinity College Cambridge in England, the University of Cambridge's wealthiest constituent college, has passed a motion calling on Trinity to divest from all companies "complicit and profiting" from Israel's war on Gaza, Middle East Eye has learnt. 

On Saturday 11 May, the Trinity College Student Union (TCSU) unanimously passed a motion which called on the college "to divest from all companies complicit in and profiting off the war in Gaza that has created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis".

MEE revealed on Sunday, that according to the student union, Trinity's college council, which administers the college, voted to divest from all arms companies. But the college decided to keep it a secret after an activist defaced a portrait inside Trinity of Lord Arthur Balfour.

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