A report published by The British Middle East website revealed that British universities invest 450 million pounds sterling in companies complicit in Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.
Delilah Boxstein adds in her report that more than a hundred British universities have more than 454 million pounds (about six hundred million dollars) in investments in companies complicit in Israeli violations of international law, according to research from the Solidarity with Palestine (BSC) campaign.
The report indicates that this disclosure angered activists in solidarity with the Palestinians.
The campaign revealed at the end of last year a publicly available database of 117 of the UK's 151 universities with investment in companies, which the group considers complicit in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians.
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The campaign believes that these companies help maintain the system of institutional racial discrimination in Israel, which amounts to the crime of apartheid, through weapons, technology and other forms of support received by companies around the world.
The report notes that the campaign started when Hoda Amouri, the responsible for it, established a chapter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions pro-Palestinian movement (PDS) at Manchester University while she was studying there.
Hoda was at the time suspicious that many universities, as well as her university, were involved in such practices, which prompted her to start collecting information for the BSC database.
The site attributes to Amuri her statement that the matter that caused her anger, like other students, especially the Palestinian student, that she must pay the education fees to institutions that invest in companies that enable these violations.
Hoda goes on to detail its activities in this context, to show that universities in the United Kingdom are investing in a group of companies that supply weapons to the Israeli occupation army and help build illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.