Vessel carrying aid to US-built pier off Gaza leaves Cyprus
Marine tracking websites show the US-flagged Sagamore has now set sail from Cyprus to carry aid to a pier built by the US off Gaza. US officials have said the vessel will be used to offload supplies onto a floating pier built to expedite aid into the besieged territory.
Students at Trinity College Dublin end Gaza protest after divestment agreement
Students at Trinity College in the Irish capital have ended their protest and will dismantle their Gaza solidarity encampment after their demands to divest from Israel were met by the university’s leadership.
In a statement posted on its website, Trinity College Dublin said that “an agreement was reached” after “successful talks between” the university’s senior management and the protesters.
Laszlo Molnarfi, president of the university’s student union and organiser of the protests, said the university’s statement was a “testament to grassroots student-staff power”.
“There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen. 5 days is all it took for @tcddublin to commit to fully divesting from Israel,” he said on social media.
The university said it “will complete a divestment from investments in Israeli companies that have activities in the occupied Palestinian Territory and appear on the UN blacklist in this regard”.
It's a start and all the students can realistically demand of the university. Still need a ceasefire though.
Germany minister criticises educators who supported pro-Palestinian protests
Germany’s Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger has lashed out at a letter of support from about 100 educators at Berlin universities in favour of pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
“This statement from educators at Berlin universities is staggering. Instead of taking a clear stand against hatred of Israel and Jews, university occupiers are being turned into the victims and violence trivialised,” she told Germany’s tabloid Bild newspaper.
On Tuesday, some 150 activists attempted to occupy a courtyard and set up tents at Berlin’s Free University. The school quickly called in the police and had the area cleared. The police reported on Wednesday that 79 people – 49 women and 30 men – had been temporarily detained and that 80 criminal investigations and 79 misdemeanour proceedings had been initiated.
In a declaration titled “Statement from Lecturers at Berlin Universities,” the educators from several Berlin universities wrote: “Regardless of whether we agree with the specific demands of the protest camp, we stand with our students and defend their right to peaceful protest.”
A pro-Palestinian activist is carried away by police at the campus of the Free University of Berlin on May 7
Police bulldoze camp to break up pro-Palestine Amsterdam protest
Dutch police have used a bulldozer to mow down a pro-Palestine encampment at the University of Amsterdam (UVA).
As we reported earlier, police arrested at least 32 protesters as they cleared the camp, located in front of the UVA’s Binnengasthuis building in the city centre of the Dutch capital.
The protesters at UVA are calling for the university to sever all ties with Israel.
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