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University Students Rising Up (continued from Easterissland’s first thread)

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Finallyloggedin · 19/05/2024 18:36

@easterissland, I hope you don’t mind me starting another thread now that the first is full.

Brave students worldwide are still showing more moral fibre than the political and media classes combined.

https://x.com/amberisms_/status/1792198517479580118?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog The Morehouse Class of 2024 Valedictorian, Deangelo Fletcher, called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza during his speech today.

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Finallyloggedin · 21/05/2024 07:17

https://x.com/kuffiyateam/status/1792622265537900912?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

Yale University students, faculty, alumni, and parents walked out of graduation ceremony to protest Yale’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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blackcherryconserve · 20/05/2024 22:42

Kindatired I know exactly how high profile Trinity College Dublin is as DD2 studied there.

I had already read the article thank you Dulra, but as for Trinity 'divesting from investments' that may well come to bite them in the backside as so much information in technology, science etc has been shared by Israel (acknowledged leaders in these industries) in the past.

Personally I do hope that constructive dialogue continues. Without it there can be no peace, which I'm sure is what we all want.

mactire · 20/05/2024 22:15

Kindatired · 20/05/2024 22:14

@blackcherryconserve
Dulra has kindly answered your question. Furthermore , Trinity is a high profile university so it will encourage dialogue and non violent protest in other universities

Yes, this is already happening in other Irish universities like UCD.

Kindatired · 20/05/2024 22:14

@blackcherryconserve
Dulra has kindly answered your question. Furthermore , Trinity is a high profile university so it will encourage dialogue and non violent protest in other universities

Dulra · 20/05/2024 21:58

blackcherryconserve · 20/05/2024 21:43

Kindatired how has the peaceful protest at Trinity Dublin made a difference? And to whom?

From the article:

Following engagement with the protesters, the college said it would complete a divestment from investments in Israeli companies that have activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and appear on the UN Blacklist in this regard.
This process is expected to be completed by June.
The students dismantled the camp after Trinity said it would “endeavour” to divest in other Israeli companies, noting that its supplier list contains just one Israeli company which will remain until March 2025 for contractual reasons.

They achieved their aim so dismantled their camp

blackcherryconserve · 20/05/2024 21:43

Kindatired how has the peaceful protest at Trinity Dublin made a difference? And to whom?

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EasterIssland · 20/05/2024 10:43

Hélène79 · 19/05/2024 19:21

What was wrong with this thread?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/conflict-in-the-middle-east/5077769-university-students-rising-up-against-ties-with-israel-part-two

Editing : I wasn’t the owner of that thread. No idea who was. Just saw it says part 2 on the title.

@Finallyloggedin I didn’t realise that the thread had finished so thanks for opening a new one

BelleHathor · 19/05/2024 20:07

Thanks @Finallyloggedin HCBU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Morehouse valedictorian called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, with Biden sitting behind him.

https://x.com/oluwaburnerboy/status/1792198233344868743

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Finallyloggedin · 19/05/2024 20:04

https://x.com/onlinepaleng/status/1791467955609342083?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

A graduate student in Medical Sciences at Boston University boldly waves the flag of Palestine, expressing her support and solidarity with Palestine.🇵🇸

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Jeannne92 · 19/05/2024 19:23

blackcherryconserve · 19/05/2024 19:19

Students rise up in every generation. In mine it was Vietnam, my daughters it was Iraq. It's a rite of passage.

This.

In France any tiny demonstration by a couple of slightly narked students is immediately compared to 1968. 🙄

blackcherryconserve · 19/05/2024 19:19

Students rise up in every generation. In mine it was Vietnam, my daughters it was Iraq. It's a rite of passage.

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Finallyloggedin · 19/05/2024 18:56

https://x.com/akimotothn/status/1792105054645957004?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

Ph.D. Minako Saigo, a Kyoto University alumna, holds up a key, symbol of the Palestinian right to return, after attending a special lecture at her alma mater given by the Palestinian ambassador to Japan Waleed Siam (@ambsiam).

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Finallyloggedin · 19/05/2024 18:48

”Read some of The Land of Sad Oranges by Ghassan Kanafani at the Leicester Uni encampment @uolpalestinesoc for Nakba Day marking 76 yrs of the ongoing Palestinian catastrophe,displacement & genocide by the Israeli occupation. Ghassan survived the Nakba but was assassinated in 1972”

https://x.com/shareefaenergy/status/1791926504735019290?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

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Finallyloggedin · 19/05/2024 18:41

https://x.com/onlinepaleng/status/1792223126274658431?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

Georgetown University's Arab Studies graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony to protest the university's complicity in the ongoing genocide in Palestinians.

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