A group of students is quietly working on laptops in a study room on the second floor of a university campus building in Brussels, with several sleeping bags at their feet.
When The Irish Times visited the building on Friday there was a relaxed atmosphere inside. Most activists were sitting on the grass in front of the building enjoying the sunshine, as a speaker played music from a second-floor window.
The catalyst for the occupation was the start of Israel’s offensive on Rafah, a city at the southern tip of Gaza. Several students are wearing keffiyehs, a traditional Palestinian scarf, as well as sunglasses or Covid-19 face masks, for fear they could face retribution from the university, or be targeted online if photographed.
In a statement after the occupation began, the university said it was “currently in discussions with representatives of the movement”. The university had already started “a screening of its partnerships and agreements linking it to Israeli universities”, it said. Ms Piorka, who is a masters student in a different Brussels university, called for the ULB pro-Palestinian occupation to be cleared out. The Jewish student group had been pushing for university presidents to be more responsive to concerns raised about anti-Semitism, she said.
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