End of week summary, June 12-16
Updates from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden
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Australia
For the last few weeks, Australian National University’s School of Art & Design students put together an exhibition on student activism. This week, according to ANU for Palestine, all posters, banners, and other material related to pro-Palestine activism were removed or destroyed.
On Friday, University of Sydney management tried to clear their student encampment by claiming tents were unattended and confiscating them.
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Belgium
On Friday, after 40 days, the Ghent University evicted its student encampment. Students at Ghent have demanded the university cut all ties with Israeli institutions and companies and fulfil their climate justice commitments.
This week, students at the Free University of Brussels successfully occupied the head of the university’s office for two days despite limited access to sanitation and pressure to leave.
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Canada
Last week, the University of Waterloo agreed to disclose its investments fully. Students from Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University have declared their intention to continue their encampment, “Gaza House”, until their demands for divestment and cutting ties to Israeli institutions.
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This week is grad week at Simon Fraser University, and SFU students dropped banners during administrative speeches, carried flags at graduation and protested their university’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Vancouver Island University students occupied their bookstore this week during the university’s convocation ceremony.
The Dalhousie University Senate has passed an academic amnesty motion for students involved in the joint encampment of universities in Halifax.
Germany
During a talk at an occupied lecture hall at the University of Bonn, the administration sent law enforcement to arrest students. According to Students for Palestine Bonn, there were 2.5 police cars on site for every student attending the event.
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The students at FU Berlin executed a banner drop on campus as part of a weeklong schedule of disruptions after a violent eviction on May 23 of a student occupation of Humboldt University.
Netherlands
On Wednesday, students started an occupation at the University of Twente. In a statement, the occupation announced:
No more, we say. This is our red line. If this is the only way they will listen, we will stay here until these genocidal tires end. For a free Palestine, within our lifetimes.
The University of Groningen evicted their encampment on Thursday. Police used dogs, came to the encampment in riot gear, and took pains to obscure the violence used to repress student protests.
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On Thursday, students at VU Amsterdam protested in front of their university’s main building, demanding disclosure and divestment from all ties to Israeli institutions. On Wednesday, Technical University Eindhoven students raised the Palestinian flag at the TU/e campus. On Monday, students did a banner drop and distributed flyers at the Randwyck Library at Maastricht University.
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Norway
Scholars at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences have signed a letter of solidarity with the Palestina Encampment NMBU.
Spain
Students ended their encampment after meeting with the University of Cádiz in early June. As of Thursday, UC Ampada por Palestina announced that the university had not fulfilled its promise and that students would be mobilizing again.
Before dawn on Friday, police evicted the student encampment at the University of Barcelona.
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Sweden
The national student movement in Sweden is calling on their government to sanction the Israeli state, a complete arms embargo, support the Palestinian people, and strengthen academic freedom. On Friday, students from across Stockholm established a new encampment in front of the Riksdag (Swedish parliament) before it was cleared by police this weekend.
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On Friday, students at Gothenburg University began a hunger strike as part of national escalation for Palestine.
Law enforcement evicted the KTH Royal Institute of Technology encampment on Friday. Students used locks to chain themselves together, held hands and sang ‘Leve Palestina’ as police in full tactical gear until police dragged them away.
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