Spanish universities plan to suspend cooperation with Israeli institutions, others are following suit

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ER Editor: It appears that certain universities are now caving to student protest demands to stop doing business with Israel in terms of business contracts and institutional connections. Scholarships for Palestinian students are part of the deal in some cases.

A couple of California universities (Sacramento and UCAL Riverside) have succeeded with their administration. See —

SOME UNIVERSITIES CHOSE VIOLENCE. OTHERS RESPONDED TO PROTESTS BY CONSIDERING STUDENT DEMANDS

Portland State is beginning to cave —

Portland State University Pauses Israel-linked Donations Amid pro-Palestinian Student Protests

Ditto for Goldsmith’s, London —

Huge victory for Goldsmiths students for Gaza as uni accepts divestment demand and more

And Trinity College Dublin —

Breaking: Trinity to work towards total divestment from Israel in unprecedented win for BDS

Of note:

A task force will be formed to work towards the protestors demands including a complete divestment from Israeli institutions and the end of Trinity’s partnerships with Israeli universities. This task force will include representatives from Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and TCDSU.

The encampment will also be allowed to submit a proposal for the renaming of the former Berkeley library. College has agreed to specifically reopen submissions for this purpose.

Molnárfi told the camp that Trinity has already divested from all Israeli supplied bar one contract that expires in March next year.

The PressTV article below deals with Spanish universities as an entire group. Andalou also carries the Spanish story —

Spanish universities to break ties with Israeli institutions ‘not committed to peace’ They also vowed to increase cooperation with Palestinian research and higher learning institutions

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Spanish universities plan to suspend cooperation with Israeli institutions

Smoke billows following Israeli strikes against the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 07, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

The plan was announced in an open letter by the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities, which oversees 50 public and 26 private universities, on Thursday.

The universities, the letter read, planned to suspend collaborations with Israeli universities that “have not expressed a firm commitment to peace and compliance with international humanitarian law.”

In addition, the universities pledged to “intensify cooperation with the Palestinian scientific and higher education system and expand our cooperation, volunteering, and care programs for the refugee population.”

The schools said they were showing solidarity with “the feelings of our campuses and the demand that is spreading from them.”

They were referring to ongoing pro-Palestinian encampments and rallies that have been going on across many universities throughout the European country in protest at the Israeli war on Gaza.

At least 34.904 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed so far during the war, which began following al-Aqsa Storm, a retaliatory operation by the coastal sliver’s resistance groups.

The letter also called for a permanent ceasefire in the war and transfer of humanitarian aid into the Palestinian territory, which is enduring a simultaneous Israeli siege.

Over the past weeks, student protests have gained momentum across western Europe, with the participants raging against the brutal Israeli military onslaught and pressing their schools to divest from the Israeli companies that contribute to the genocide.

The demonstrators have taken their cue from pro-Palestinian student protests across the United States, which have spread across numerous of American colleges.

More than 1,000 people have reportedly been arrested on US campuses since April 18, when a pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University in New York was forcefully removed by the police.

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