Some students want their colleges to divest from Israel. Here's what that really means.

College endowments, usually a sleepy part of a university's operations, are now front and center in the campus protests that are spreading across the nation, with students holding up signs with slogans such as "Disclose! Divest!" and "Divest from death now!" These demands are central to the student protesters' efforts, with many of the students condemning what they see as their universities' financial support for Israel's war in Gaza. At Brown University, for example, student protesters charge that the school's …