Peaceful protest or academic disruption? Melbourne University Gaza camp-in goes on

Luca, a 24-year-old master’s degree student at the University of Melbourne, should be hunkered down at his desk, hammering out 12,000 words in essays as his end-of-semester deadline looms.Luca – who asked that his surname not be published because of concerns it could affect his future career, but did provide his student ID – is one of the dozens of protesters against the bloody war in Gaza staging a sit-in inside the Arts West building at the university’s leafy Parkville campus.

University leaders have threatened to send in law enforcement to clear the camp, but Victoria Police says no formal complaint of trespass – required for them to go in and remove the protesters – has been made. “The students and staff here aren’t asking for the University of Melbourne to solve everything happening in Palestine. I want to be thriving in my degree — but I also want to know that while I’m doing that, the money I contribute to the university is not complicit in weapons manufacturing.”Despite a renewed warning from the university it could send in the police on Thursday night, there was no sign of a police presence on campus on Friday.

Those students did not want to speak to media. But their concerns included signs calling for an “intifada” – an Arabic word for uprising, which is associated with periods of civil disobedience in the occupied Palestinian territories but also deadly violence targeting Israeli civilians – and chanting of the contested pro-Palestine slogan, “from the river to the sea”, which they see as a call for Israel’s destruction.

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