The University of Sydney Gaza Solidarity Encampment has announced in a statement that it is ending after occupying the Quadrangle Laws since April 23.
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In a statement to Honi on Monday, a University spokesperson declared that “political messaging has been removed from Graffiti Tunnel for a number of years, irrespective of the content; recently that has involved both pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine graffiti.”
USyd encampment organisers have set out two counteroffers to University administration:
“An open meeting at our encampment, where all those attending the camp will have the right to witness the meeting or, a town hall meeting open to all staff and students, which takes place at a lecture theatre on campus.”
When asked about the chant “from the river to the sea” heard at many student-led rallies and encampments around the country, Albanese stated that “if you asked those people chanting it, heaps of them… wouldn’t be able to find the Jordan River on a map.”
Honi Soit arrived at the encampment minutes before the protestors entered via University Avenue, and the encampment organisers were pleasantly surprised by the energy of protestors, their chants clearly audible from the Quad lawns.
On Tuesday May 7 at 1pm, hundreds of students attended a snap rally organised by the USyd Gaza solidarity encampment, in response to the most recent attacks on — and beginning of an invasion of — Rafah after Israel rejected a ceasefire.
Despite the poor weather, the encampment continues to grow. Honi counted over 70 tents this morning, although several tents had been wrecked by bad weather.
Encampment rally takes place amidst the rain, speak-out takes place outside F23, and Honi speaks to Nasser Mashni.
Saturday’s agenda included a banner paint for the encampment’s contingent to the weekly Hyde Park Palestine solidarity rally, a teach-in on a people’s history of the Vietnam War led by Lily Campbell, and a film screening of the Battle of Algiers (1966).
On Tuesday, April 23, University of Sydney student and staff activists commenced their first day of a campout in support of encampments at Columbia University and other US campuses.