The City University of New York (Cuny) invested over $715,000 in weapons manufacturers supplying the Israeli military, financial records obtained by pro-Palestine campaigners have revealed.
The records obtained by pro-Palestine groups at the largest public university in the US show that the institution's investment portfolio includes holdings in several weapons companies - including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Palantir, Elbit Systems, and General Dynamics - all of which have supplied weapons or military technology to the Israeli army.
In doing so, Cuny becomes one of a very small number of American universities to publicly disclose investments in defence companies operating with Israel.
The revelations prove that the university is complicit in the US-supported Israeli genocide in Gaza, Cuny4Palestine and Cuny Law Students for Justice in Palestine (Cuny Law SJP) said in a statement on Wednesday.
More than 250,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured, and the Gaza Strip has been left in ruins, following Israel's war since the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel.
