CUNY students win landmark legal case demanding the school disclose investments linked to Gaza genocide – Mondoweiss

In March 2024, then-first-year law student at the City University of New York’s Law School, Sarah Southey, filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request to obtain CUNY’s financial investment information, including what companies are held in their financial portfolio. This came months into the ongoing genocide waged by Israel in Gaza, as well as a growing pro-Palestine movement on college campuses across the United States. One of the demands of the student activists was—and…