Edinburgh graduates in Engineering, Chemistry, Physics and English disrupted and walked out of their ceremony, continuing solidarity with Palestine and in protest of the university’s financial ties with Israel.

by Just-another-weapon

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  3. Taking away what might be the most important moment in a persons life to make a political statement.

  4. I always wonder what its like for the people sitting at the front. Like is it a “this is awkward since my salary has been, in part, paid for by investments into israel”?

  5. Didnae even get a free lunch at mine, no chance of a free Palestine.

  6. That’s a generation of graduates with a conscience. Wish the same could be said for the rest of us

  7. Good for them! It’s always nice to see that my peers have morals

  8. The Israeli regime can bite ma shite, mon the Palestinian folk ✊️🇵🇸

  10. While I support their cause 🇵🇸 , curious as to how many of them use Amazon, Google and laptops with Windows and IBM chips.

    To be clear these are the companies that the University has investments and the whole basis for these protests. Perhaps those students are outright boycotting any use of their associated products but I somehow doubt it.

    No particular fan of Edinburgh University but feel they are being targeted a lot for something the majority of the UK population are involved with (imagine most pensions in the country have investments in at least one of those companies as well)

  16. But not 1 will reject their diploma.
    Not one will go to another college and get their degree from there.
    They are hypocrites, the lot of them

  17. Managed to finish there education first. Didnt have strong principles a year ago.

  18. This is if the fourth or fifth time it’s happened at Edinburgh Uni this year, lots of graduation ceremonies seeing the same thing.

  19. Love it, and love the academic on the podium sitting near the hyphenateds pro vice chancellor this pro deputy principal that) clapping. They are sitting close enough to suggest that they might hold one of these positions. 100% solidarity with these students and this academics who support them

  21. It’s all a laugh until someone gets their degree revoked for disrupting the ceremony and bringing the university into disrepute.

  22. Not sure which subject graduations this was, but is wisnae Engineering, Chemistry and Physics.
    source: I was there

  24. Love how it’s all “lazy students on my taxes” until the ceremony is disrupted.

    Suddenly “poor folks wait **their WHOLE LIVES** for this moment…”

  26. Aren’t they complicit by paying tuition fees (for those non Scots graduates)?.

  27. Imagine thinking you are centre of attention and ruining the graduation for hundreds of people

  28. The brutal senseless murdering has been happening for a long time, I remember seeing this on the news as a teenager in the 90s. In one instance Israel gave jobs to over 6000 Palestinians and were planning more, once Hamas found out they sent in suicide bombers to disrupt the operation, due to this 6000 Palestinians couldn’t feed their families.

    Hamas were voted in by fear, anyone who disagreed or showed negativity was killed. How did Pride Month go! Oh it never, because they kill homosexuals.

    They hide their military communications in hospital underground tunnels, the IDF finds this out and informs hamas that their activities are putting Israeli lives at risk, they give them plenty of time to evacuate the hospitals before they destroy the comms center, but guess what, Hamas tell nobody and let innocent people die because it looks better for their cause.

    You have absolutely no idea of the brutality of Islamic terrorist groups, who share zero values with westerners.

  30. Iran is doing a standup job of radicalising the youth in the United Kingdom. Bravo.

  31. Are there ties not because they hold shares in US Tech. I’m not totally informed so please correct me if I’m missing something.

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