Students in Belgium, Ireland and Britain are protesting about Gaza, building camps

Students in Belgium, Ireland and Britain are protesting about Gaza, building camps
Students in Belgium, Ireland and Britain are protesting about Gaza, building camps
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A spokeswoman for the university in Ghent, Belgium, said that around a hundred students are occupying the six institutions, who want to protest until Wednesday. The university, however, protesting against it, several professors and other employees signed an open letter criticizing the university’s ongoing relations with Israel.

In the Netherlands, students occupy the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije University in the same city. If a dog tries to stay overnight at the University of Amsterdam, this institution will turn to the police, according to the statement.

Israel’s move against the radical Hamas movement and the Palestinians in the West Bank sparked widespread protests at universities in the USA, where police arrested two thousand people in the last two weeks.

Protest groups were thus created at universities in Britain. Welcome to the People’s University for Palestine, stand on a banner, just appeared on the campus of Oxford University on Monday. More than a hundred students, only female faculty and research workers, signed an open letter there, in which they stated that they firmly support the members of the university community who started the protest.

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We are aware of holding demonstrations only in university communities. We first respect our students’ and employees’ freedom of expression in the form of peaceful protest. We urge all those who share them to do so with respect, ambiguity and empathy, said the Oxford University spokesperson to The Telegraph.

Students from Cambridge joined the demonstrations on Monday. Protests took place last week at universities in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Warwick, Newcastle and Sheffield.

Cambridge University launches encampment on Campus.

calling for their university to divest funds from Israel and an end to their universities complicity in Israels ongoing genocide https://t.co/DSfG2fRUfe

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In Ireland, a popular uprising had to take place

The protest group was set up by the students of the Irish university of Trinity College in Dublin. Because of him, the university on Sunday restricted access to the campus and closed the Book of Kells building, one of Ireland’s biggest tourist attractions.

The group in Ireland was formed on Friday evening after the student union announced that the university had imposed a fine of 214,000 euros (5.4 million crowns) for financial losses caused in recent months due to protests that did not involve the exclusive wolves in Gaza.

The president of the student union, Lszl Molnrfi, published on social media X a photo of benches stacked in front of the entrance to the building, which houses the ancient Book of Kells manuscript named after the main attraction, an illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks around 800 AD. He stated that the building is now closed indefinitely. On his profile, he published a number of pictures of the camp.

The university said it has restricted access to the campus for students, staff and residents due to security concerns.

Thus, protesting from Trinity College, demand that the oldest Irish university sever ties with Israeli universities and get rid of investments in all companies that have ties to Israel.

University of Dublin professor Linda Doyle said in a statement last week that Trinity College is reviewing its investment in the company’s portfolio. The decision to cooperate with Israeli institutions depends on individual academics.

Ireland has long been a supporter of the Palestinians. The government has pledged to formally recognize Palestine as a state soon.

About a hundred students from the University of Lausanne occupied their round on the weekend.

Palestinians have been dying for more than 200 days, but no one has carried us, said one of the protestors on yesterday’s television. Now there is a worldwide movement to push governments to action, but it is not happening. That is why we want universities to get involved now, he added. The university said the occupation would continue until Monday if I did not find work on campus.

According to the numbers in the Gaza Strip, more than 34,000 Palestinians were killed by the seven-month-old wolf. The conflict broke out on January 7, when Hamsa fighters ambushed Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping 250 others, of whom roughly 130 were captured in Gaza, according to Israeli reports.

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