UCD students establish pro-Palestine encampment at Belfield

Students at University College Dublin have set up an encampment in Belfield in solidarity with Palestine.

It is the second such encampment at an Irish university in recent weeks. Trinity College students last Wednesday ended a six-day encampment, which had resulted in public access to the Book of Kells being blocked, after the university The protest organisers also called on the university to issue a public statement calling for “an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people by the settler state of Israel”.

“We will not accept the inclusion of any neutral statement that condemns all forms of violence on both sides, which creates a false moral and material equivalence, underplaying the genocidal destruction Israel has unleashed on the Palestinian people,” concluded the statement.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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