UK: Cambridge University academics and staff endorse Gaza student encampment
More than 1,700 staff, alumni, and students from the University of Cambridge have signed onto an open letter expressing support for protesters who set up a protest encampment earlier this week that calls on the university to end any potential complicity in Israel's war on Gaza.
On Monday, around a hundred students gathered outside Cambridge's King's College, where they erected tents and demanded the institution commit to divesting from companies involved in Israel's war.
They joined students at over a hundred universities worldwide who have set up similar protest movements.
The encampment's organisers told Middle East Eye they are demanding that Cambridge University discloses all its relationships with companies and institutions "complicit in the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine".
They said they want the university to end all such relationships, support Palestinian students and academics - and commit to protecting academic freedom.
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