{"id":330097,"date":"2024-05-02T20:26:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=330097"},"modified":"2024-05-02T20:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T17:28:06","slug":"british-universities-join-their-american-counterparts-in-protests-against-the-aggression-israeli-attack-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=330097","title":{"rendered":"British universities join their American counterpart in protests against the Israeli occupation aggression on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.1pt;\">London, Agencies, SANA-Scores of pro-Palestine students are staging protests on university lawns across Britain in a stand against Israeli occupation\u2019s war in Gaza, in a bid to replicate sit-ins on campuses in the US. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.1pt;\">Protesters at Russell Group universities including Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Sheffield and Newcastle have pitched tents and erected anti-Israel signs as they call for an end to military action in the Gaza strip. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.1pt;\">Students from Manchester University filled nearby Brunswick Park with banners, plaques and Palestinian flags to call for the university to &#8216;end its partnership with systems which support \u201cIsrael&#8217;.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.1pt;\">One banner read: &#8216;UOM blood on your hands&#8217;, while another claimed: &#8216;UOM supports Israeli Genocide.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.1pt;\">In Bristol, hand-painted banners were erected between tents, emblazoned with messages of defiance as students lobbied their university to cut ties with arms companies and back calls for a ceasefire as the war rages on in the Levant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.1pt;\">Large crowds have also been forming in Newcastle, as students say their protest will &#8216;highlight the institution&#8217;s investment strategy and its complicity in the Israeli military&#8217;s war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background: white; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -.1pt;\">\u00a0Mazen Eyon\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, Agencies, SANA-Scores of pro-Palestine students are staging protests on university lawns across Britain in a stand against Israeli occupation\u2019s war in Gaza, in a bid to replicate sit-ins on campuses in the US. 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