Divestment is the act of withdrawing financial support or investment from entities, industries, or countries causing harm or injustice. Many are aware of it from the South African anti-apartheid movement. More recently it has been used in campaigns to end fossil fuel use, the U.S. prison, border, and surveillance industries as well as military occupation and apartheid in Palestine/Israel. In this program, Noam Perry, will particularly focus on how it is working in the struggle for human rights in Palestine/Israel, and how we as individuals and in our communities can use this tactic. ###. Noam Perry is the Strategic Research Coordinator of AFSC's Action Center for Corporate Accountability. He coordinates the Investigate project, researching corporate complicity in state violence and human rights violations, including the U.S. prison, border, and surveillance industries as well as military occupation and apartheid in Palestine/Israel. ###. Before joining AFSC, Noam was teaching in the Human Rights program at San José State University. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Noam holds a B.Sc. in Physics and M.A. in Geography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Law and Public Policy from Northeastern University in Boston.