Soas expels Palestine Society president Haya Adam after months of suspension

Pro-Palestine student activist Haya Adam has been expelled by the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) after a disciplinary panel determined that she had breached the university’s code of conduct.

Adam, 21, is the president of the Soas Palestine Society, and was one of the most visible participants in a 15-month-long student encampment protesting the institution’s alleged complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza.

The panel decision on Wednesday found that Adam breached the university’s code of conduct over her appearance in a video posted on 16 January to the student encampment’s Instagram page. 

In the video, which remains on Instagram, Adam criticises a Soas student union co-president, stating that her tenure had “only served institutional oppression”, and calling her a “careerist”.

The university disciplinary panel ruled that the Instagram video constituted harassment, despite the student union officer in question herself refusing to call the post harassment in a recorded panel discussion.

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