Gaza solidarity encampments set up at UK universities after protests across US campuses
there’s a little bumblebee for its life so I need to we have any c yeah we do have cold water what am talking about
Gaza solidarity encampments have spread to UK universities, echoing protests across US campuses this week.
Students at the University of Bristol, University of Leeds, and Newcastle University set up tents in demonstrations on Wednesday, 1 May.
Bristol students said they staged the action “in protest of the university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,” while Apartheid Off Campus Newcastle said their demonstration was to “highlight the institution’s investment strategy and its complicity in the Israeli military’s war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.”
It comes following violent clashes on the University of California campus between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demonstrators, hours after police stormed Columbia University and arrested dozens of students.
The Independent has contacted the UK universities for comment.
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44 comments
If they'd attended a certain festival last year I wonder whether they'd still be waiving flags of a terrorist state, shame social media now infects the minds of so many young, pandoras box, can't be put back…
This needs to be nipped in bud
Morons !
Expel the lot
It's all right, they'll be working in tesco after their course finishes, they always do.
Not one of them saying free the hostages. Deport all of them to gaza.
So they are in support of Hamas ?
This is what the rich give to their offspring hatred to the world of innocent people who died at the hands of madmen.
Exclude them from uni they are spoilt brats
did the Open Society Foundation bulk purchase all of the tents ? asking for a friend.
And at 5pm? Mummy will bring a hot meal to my tent ⛺️
The support for Hamas/Al Jizeera is truly minimal!
👍😊😘❤️💕
Pathetic
Why don't they all go to gaza and protest we brits had enough of constant protests or just move out there
Will they be expelled from universities?
The left: "everyones a nazi fascist" ….
Also the left: " we support hamas and their genocide of jews and we will intimidate anyone who disagrees"
All buying the scarf from amazon because BLM is not this seasons fashion
Not one condemning the rape and slaughter of jewish girls by Palestinians on Oct 7th
what has happened to the UK we are supplying lethal aid to the nazis iin ukraine and even more aid for a country to carry out what the ones in 1939 tried to do who just happened to be nazis.
Marshal Zhukov talking about Russia winning ww2. "We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.
This is the uk not the middle east stop protesting this country doesn't care we want our country back
These country is full of followers.
so if we get conscription back we can send these people to be peacekeepers over in palestine .
Anyone else noticed that all the tents are the same as well as all the other paraphilia? Its funded by George Soros and there are paid adjitators installed to whip up the crowd. Little fools dont even know this or what they are protesting for, all they know is the chants, buzzwords and that they are getting attention and allowed to get away with almost anything.
ugh
I'd like to know if any engineering students attend this pathetic display.
In my day the only protests were to limit concerts to 96 decibels or generation 1 feminists stopping a night time strip show in the canteen.
We engineering students used to think humanities and fine art 'students' were just wasters who took pride in being prats and did nothing for society.
Correction, there are exceptions; one of them was Mark Almond…soft cell
Good on you
Most of these kids havnt got a clue
If you like being shadow banned for opposing genocide, you'll love this comments section. Pro genocide hate speech is perfectly fine though
The definition of sheep 🐑
Useful idiots are at it again. Hamas is laughing all the way to bank. 🙄
This is going to make no difference what so ever
All the weeping Zios in this comments section are hilarious 😂
Honestly I cannot stop laughing at this guy 00:03..
It’s actually like a Nazi Salute in some ways.
00:29 “there’s a little bumble bee fightings for its life’s , do we have any cold water” said the 5 year old girl in the playground..
That’s not an encampment either… it’s a load of twats.
Every single student ignorant of reality and history, swallowing the legacy media lies.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂…nice view
This is why Blair wanted all the thick kids to go to university.
Just look at them, what a state!
When are they going to demonstrate outside the Russian / Iranian embassies? Both countries are pouring arms into the Gaza conflict. When are they going to demonstrate outside the Chinese embassy for their treatment of the Uyghur Muslims? When are they going to… oh… might as well stop there… no time soon I guess!
Those saying they wouldn't last 5 minutes in gaza well thats what they are protesting about. Thousands of people have been killed or are surving because they have no chance.
Its great that these people are protesting about something that matters. The negative commentators on here are protesting for nothing except spreading disinformation, skewed thoughts, hate and narcissistic behaviour.
The Independent newspaper use to have respectable but now I see you as a micky mouse newspaper after watching this heavily edited video. Really low point for you.
I always thought university was a place where debate took place about opposing views without the threat of violence ~ that is obviously not the case today. These encampments are largely populated by people wearing masks who will not engage with anyone who has a contrary view to theirs. This is how fascism took root in Germany in the 1930s. And there was me thinking students attending university were 'intelligent' . . .
when they do they start wearing their black shirts?
FREE PALESTINE