Harvard Brokers Deal With Protesters, Ending Pro-Palestinian Encampment on Campus

Pro-Palestinian protesters at Harvard University said Tuesday they have ended their campus occupations in exchange for the reinstatement of their comrades who have been suspended. “Yesterday, the Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) coalition democratically voted to end its encampment after 20 days,” the group, which is not an officially recognized student organization, wrote in a statement on Instagram. The decision to unwind the encampment came after interim Harvard President Alan Garber and HOOP organizers brokered a deal that would allow at least 22 students to be reinstated from involuntary leaves of absence. In addition, the Ivy League university offered protesters face time with members of Harvard Management Company, which oversees a $50 billion endowment, to learn how endowment funds are invested and make a pitch for “divestment”—that is, withdrawing endowment investments in companies that do business with Israel....