More than 30 US student associations and 11 Canadian student associations have voted to support divestment from Israeli apartheid.

Campaigns calling on universities to divest from companies that profit from Israeli human rights violations have become one of the biggest issues on US and Canadian university campuses.

Resolutions in support of divestment have been passed at Stanford University, Princeton University and 7 of the 9 campuses of the University of California.

In Canada, divestment resolutions have been passed at universities including the University of Toronto, York University and the University of Regina.

So far one US university, the University of Hampshire, has responded to student pressure by divesting from Israeli occupation. The university divested from 6 firms over their role in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.