‘The sacrifice is worth it’: Students continue pro-Palestine encampment on grounds of UCD

The camp was established on Saturday evening at the main lake at the south Dublin campus by UCD Students’ Union and the college’s Boycott, Divest and Sanctions group, in protest at the college’s stance on

Other demands include flying the Palestinian flag on campus until a permanent ceasefire is agreed; and the naming of the Centre of Future Learning building, which is under construction, after Palestinian writer and poet Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an air strike inEabha Hughes, who helped organise the encampment, said there had been no communication from the university yet.

Aoife, a final year student in social sciences, was also among those taking part and is in the middle of exams. “You see the sacrifices being made by students in the US ... it’s kind of inspired me to think whatever sacrifices I can make to make UCD stand up against genocide, I’m willing to do.” “Members of our University community have the absolute right to express a diversity of viewpoints within the law, mindful of our commitment to dignity and respect, and one of our most fundamental obligations as a University is to uphold this right,” she said.

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