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The pro-Palestinian student movement expands around the world
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The pro-Palestinian student movement is growing day after day around the world and is spreading to many universities in the world’s major capitals. New universities across the world joined the pro-Palestinian student movement observed in many American and Western universities the day before Tuesday, media reported yesterday. In the Netherlands, students from the University of Amsterdam set up a camp on campus the day before yesterday in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. During their action, the students called on the university administration to sever its ties with affiliated institutions of the Zionist entity. In Spain, demonstrations of solidarity with Palestine spread to various universities in the Basque regions, Navarra, Aragon, Andalusia and Catalonia, Spanish media reported. Thus, students from the University of the Basque Country and Navarre announced, the day before yesterday Tuesday, that the protests would continue indefinitely by setting up camps, like in Valencia. In France, students from Paris 8 University demonstrated in support of Gaza. They chanted slogans in support of Ghaza, such as “Freedom for Palestine,” “Stop the genocide,” and “Long live Palestine.”
In Switzerland, students in turn mobilized for a ceasefire in Gaza. The demonstrators denounced the “double standard” of their rectorate, recalling its support for Ukrainians.
After an initial mobilization of around fifty students on May 2, in the hall of a building at the University of Lausanne, several Swiss campuses saw similar mobilizations emerge on May 7, reported Swiss Radio Television (RTS ). Groups of students, equipped with tents, organized sit-ins in the halls of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne and that of Zurich as well as at the University of Geneva. At EPFL, the mobilized students demanded “an academic boycott” of Israeli institutions and “an end to censorship at EPFL”.
In Zurich, ETH students shouted “Free Palestine” and hung a banner reading “no Tech for Genocide” before being evacuated by police, Swiss news agency Keystone reported -ATS.
According to this same source, in Geneva, the protesting students, led by the Palestine-University of Geneva Student Coordination, took over a university hall with tables, chairs and sofas. In Bangladesh, students from various universities organized a march in support of Palestine, demanding “an end to the genocide in Ghaza.” Students waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans such as “Free Palestine” and “Stop the genocide.” not