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

[Finallyloggedin]

@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.

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.

”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

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).

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

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

This.

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

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.🇵🇸

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

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

Harvard students continue their action

https://x.com/suppressednws/status/1792473405695877360?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

So Trinity College Dublin has dropped the fine for the student protests.
I am so happy to see young people experience how peaceful protest can make a difference.
https://www.thejournal.ie/trinity-fine-students-6384768-May2024/

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
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 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.

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.

https://x.com/onlinepaleng/status/1792888262874337366?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

The Boston University graduating class of 2024 walked out of their commencement ceremony, protesting the university's silence and complicity in the ongoing genocidal war in Gaza.

Harvard -

https://x.com/swarnabhghosh/status/1793676567325065555?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

https://x.com/hamoudmma/status/1793701909838041254?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

https://x.com/harvxrdpsc/status/1793662260423848102?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

UCL
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7SRlCko2_w/?igsh=MTgxZGJpbHg2b2drcw==

Quite right too.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13451605/police-oxford-students-pro-palestinian-protest-university.html

https://x.com/_madeleinejane/status/1793636854950211931?s=61&t=nilGqPeurpC5xVqZAZdZog

Oxford

Good to see that the students have the moral compass and clarity that their politicians in the US don’t have
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U0dm6vD8y/?igsh=MTE3Zmd5N3d2ZTI5bw==

Not directly linked to student protests but thought I d post this here as well as on another thread as I think whether it is students, EU workers, members of the judiciary from
across the world etc people are calling for change

The UN’s top court has ordered Israel to halt its assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah in a landmark ruling that will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country.

The president of the international court of justice, Nawaf Salam, said the humanitarian situation in Rafah had deteriorated further and was now classified as “disastrous”, meaning the ICJ’s previously issued provisional measures “do not fully address the consequences arising from the change in the situation”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/24/icj-orders-israel-to-halt-rafah-offensive-new-ruling

Is it really too much to ask that MN censor pro-Hamas propagandists still trying to claim Israel is engaged in genocide? This is a lie, pure and simple.

As for the infantile 'students' and their pathetic virtue signalling, it is obvious none of them has even the tiniest clue about what is actually going on in Israel.