UK students begin new wave of protests against Gaza war after US arrests

A fresh wave of student demonstrations and encampments are under way at UK universities in protest over the war inProtests were due to take place in at least six universities on Wednesday, including Sheffield, Bristol, Leeds and Newcastle, with others expected to follow suit, in a show of solidarity with Palestinians.

The SCCP said walkouts from lectures were due to take place, followed by a demonstration, with plans for some students to set up tents and gazebos outside university buildings. This followed a small encampment at the University of Warwick, which began last week. Organisers said students were outraged after the university apparently signed a partnership with Leonardo SpA, a defence and security company they claim is responsible for producing the laser targeting system for the Israel Defense Forces’s F-35 fighter jets used in the war in Gaza.

In Leeds, a May Day student walkout for Palestine was planned; in Bristol, students at the university established an encampment with tents and banner in protest at what they described as the university’s “complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians”.

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