“We ask everyone who is taking part to do so with respect, courtesy and empathy,” the spokesperson said.
Students and staff at the University of London have set up a “Liberated Zone for Gaza” on campus stating that the institution was “deeply tied to Israeli settler colonialism” through investments in various companies.
Similar pro-Palestine encampments have been set up at universities in Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle as well.
Students from the Cambridge Jews for Justice in Palestine group said they “refuse to sit by while our university is complicit in, and profits from, the genocide of Palestinians and we refuse to accept its commitment to murder and bloodshed as the status quo”.
The group’s spokesperson said they were joining “students across the world in refusing the weaponised conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism”.
The protests at British universities mirror pro-Palestine demonst
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 