Students question uni’s link to weapons

Various student groups are involved in the encampment, which buried its stakes in a large central lawn area of the Parkville campus last Thursday.The demonstration is broadly calling for the University of Melbourne to cut ties with any and all weapons manufacturers .

Boeing makes military planes and missiles, and the US supplies Israel with Boeing’s guided air-to-surface bombs. Student organiser Dana Alshaer says she grew up surrounded by conflict. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Blair Jackson There was a particular period of heightened tension from 2000 to 2005 in the contested area, called the Second Intifada or Second Uprising. During this Ms Alshaer says she and her cousin were walking on an isolated road, when a “huge” Israeli man got out of his car with a rifle strapped around himself, picked her young cousin up by the throat before dumping the boy on the ground.

A woman prays at a University of Melbourne pro-Palestine encampment. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Blair Jackson

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