Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel. What does that mean?

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in Gaza

As protests against Israel's offensive in Gaza are spreading throughout American campuses, one demand made by students across schools keeps coming up: divestment from Israel.

Universities rely on endowments to fund things like research and scholarships, and those endowments are typically invested in companies and alternative asset classes, such as private equity and hedge funds.