The university protests against the offensive of Israel in Loop they’re spreading in Spain. To the Camping of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Valenciawhich has been going on for a week now, have joined about 50 students from the University of Barcelona (UB) who started a camping trip this Monday in the courtyard of the Historic Building to support Palestine.
The spokesperson for the Palestine Solidarity Committee and participant in the camp, Marc del Alcázar, added that before the action about 150 people gathered in the university courtyard in an assembly to analyze the importance of their decision. “It is a space that should serve not only to do the complaint to the university communitybut to also do it with the complicity of the Government of the Generalitat and the Government of the Spanish State,” said Alcázar and has invited all people sensitive to the conflict, beyond students, to join the protests.
UB students intend to keep camping until Wednesdaywhen at 2:30 p.m. there will be an extraordinary cloister on Palestine.
Del Alcázar added that the rectorate has not contacted them, but they have mediated with the faculty’s security personnel about the measures to maintain to a peaceful protestand explained that “they have not caused many problems” and the activists have access to the toilets and a study room, in addition to the patio where they camp.
Pro-Palestinian camps in the United Kingdom
Students from the universities of oxford and cambridgethe most prestigious of United Kingdomhave installed camping paths in support of the Palestinian population and against the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Dozens of activists have set up in front of King’s College in Cambridge and at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in a “liberated zone camp” with activities about Palestine and “well-being circles”, according to the network. SkyNews.
One of the tents has a makeshift kitchen serving hot food, there is an emergency medical corner and arts and crafts workshops.
A Jewish student, Kendall Gardner, has explained that they have felt “inspired by what is happening around the world.” “The United States has begun a global chain of student activism in favor of Palestine,” he highlighted.
They ask for the suppression of all items that benefit Israel in a list of six demands such as disinvestment, budget transparency, changes in investment policy and boycott of international relations. “We are going to stay here until they are met,” Gardner stressed.
The University of Oxford has expressed its respect for activists’ right to freedom of expression. “We ask everyone who participates to do so with respect, courtesy and empathy,” the university has indicated.
The student demonstrations continue the trail of discontent that began on American campuses where to date more than 2,000 arrestsa figure that could increase in the coming hours since these demonstrations have been recorded on 42 campuses in 23 different states, according to calculations by The New York Times.
