Edinburgh students on hunger strike demand university divestment over Gaza

The University of Edinburgh is under pressure from students who started a hunger strike 22 days ago and is ongoing. 

Students are demanding divestment from companies complicit in Israel's ongoing genocide and occupation of Palestine like Alphabet and Amazon.

The divestment campaign has won the support of 600 staff and was endorsed with a 97 per cent vote at the students’ union.

A statement from one student, age 20, on their fifth day of joining the hunger strike, said “The university has failed their duty of care. We have been led to take this extreme form of protest in order for our demands to even be acknowledged by senior management. Yet we have still faced complete negligence, with no sense of urgency to meet our demands.”