Students Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians— Outside of the USA

Gregor Flock
26 min readJun 19, 2024

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An article in 14 sections: 1) Australia; 2) Austria; 3) Belgium; 4) Britain; 5) Canada; 6) France; 7) Germany; 8) Greece, 9) Ireland; 10) Italy; 11) Netherlands; 12) Spain; 13) Sweden; 14) Switzerland.

Part 7 of a mini-series. For related earlier work, see my articles “US Censorship and Suppression of Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 Genocide of Palestinians”, “Global Protests Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians,” “The Ziofascist Israeli Network in the USA and Its Nefarios Activities at US Universities” (part 1), “The Ziofascist Israeli Network Reacts to US Students Protesting the 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians” (part 2), “Students Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians — The State of New York” (part 3), “Students Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians — The US East Coast” (part 4), “Students Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians — The State of California” (part 5) and “Students Against Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians — The US Midlands and West Coast” (part 6).

1. Australia

December 14: University of Queensland

https://twitter.com/m_h_b_n_/status/1735131833426460719 to https://twitter.com/m__a__h__n/status/1735131839919181919

April 26

https://twitter.com/WarWatchs/status/1783792194106622203

2. Austria

May 6–8

https://twitter.com/derJamesJackson/status/1787397920565686695
https://twitter.com/derJamesJackson/status/1787451592947470631

Propaganda from the conservative, pro-genocide, Ziofascist and also US-ass-kissing prime minister or chancellor of Austria who ‘coincidentally’ omits the fact that the protest action was from a Jewish anti-genocide person with a conscience:

https://twitter.com/karlnehammer/status/1787425250914762994
https://twitter.com/BDSAustria/status/1787496082106208510
https://twitter.com/BDSAustria/status/1787496419680534794

Propaganda from the de facto Ziofascist Austrian student organisation:

https://twitter.com/joehwien/status/1787564613388644756

Propaganda from the Ziofascist-captured ‘Green & Alternative’ fake-left student organisation:

https://twitter.com/dieGRAS/status/1787518102130823630
https://twitter.com/dieGRAS/status/1787518104769069121
https://twitter.com/dieGRAS/status/1787518109005275449
https://twitter.com/dieGRAS/status/1787518113459687683
https://twitter.com/GFlock_GCSN/status/1788156108378423747

Another Green candidate for EU elections also opens the door wide to Ziofascists and their propagandistic Holocaust industry while at the same time (falsely) claiming on her profile that she is supposedly antifascist:

https://twitter.com/VickySpielfrau/status/1788185135289967075
https://twitter.com/Bini_Guttmann/status/1788187553356472695
https://twitter.com/VickySpielfrau, screenshot from May 8, 2024

Ziofascist propaganda from a Der Standard ‘journalist’:

https://twitter.com/msulzbacher/status/1788195361900658803
https://twitter.com/BDSAustria/status/1787807008936079389
https://twitter.com/univienna/status/1788193283341988202
https://twitter.com/univienna/status/1788193285548184054
https://twitter.com/univienna/status/1788193287670509920
https://twitter.com/GesundheitsPER/status/1788252390027612661
https://twitter.com/gracehatesfilm/status/1788322209951281630
https://twitter.com/hadwig/status/1788293038655029485
https://twitter.com/Akram_Akramovic/status/1788197645292315129
https://twitter.com/GFlock_GCSN/status/1788483309422481649

3. Belgium

https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1795848983237087437

4. Britain

https://twitter.com/rivkahbrown/status/1782460018719117513; https://novaramedia.com/2024/04/22/did-an-israel-lobbyist-confect-an-antisemitism-story-about-a-palestine-demo/

On Thursday, a video began circulating of a Metropolitan police officer instructing a Jewish man to leave a pro-Palestine march.

“You are quite openly Jewish,” the officer told Gideon Falter, who’d seemingly stumbled across the central London demo on 13 April. “This is a pro-Palestinian march. I’m not accusing you of anything, but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.” The officer threatened Falter with arrest for breaching the peace, and he left voluntarily.

The video spread like wildfire. Evidence shared with Novara Media suggests it was set up.

Working the media.

By Friday, the video was in every UK mainstream media outlet, including the Telegraph, Independent, Daily Mail, Guardian, Sky, ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC. The Met was forced to apologise, retract its apology, then apologise for the apology. While the Home Office issued a statement welcoming the Met’s contrition over the incident, Falter continued his media crusade unappeased.

On Saturday, he published a comment piece on his ordeal in the Times. By Sunday his story had gone global, featuring on Fox News and ABC as well as Israel’s Ynet and Haaretz. By Monday, Falter was the subject of hastily written puff pieces in the Times of Israel and the Sunday Times.

Following his gangbuster media round, on Sunday Falter called for Met commissioner Mark Rowley’s head. His call did not go unanswered: Rowley’s boss Sadiq Khan will meet him on Monday to discuss community relations, though it appears the commissioner has narrowly escaped dismissal. Rowley will also get a dressing down from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council and the Community Security Trust [i.e. three Ziofascist organizations which disguise themselves as ‘Jewish’] later this week.

Perhaps sensing an opportunity to develop his “Britain is in chaos” narrative, prime minister Rishi Sunak added his two cents on the matter on Monday, saying he was “appalled” by the police’s treatment of Falter.

Yet just as quickly as the incident was making headlines, Falter’s account of it was unravelling.

Citation needed.

Media coverage of the altercation described Falter as an “antisemitism campaigner” — as well as running the UK arm of the land-grabbing Jewish National Fund, Falter is CEO of the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) [i.e. the Campaign Against Antizionism], an organisation established in 2014 during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge that killed 2,251 Palestinians and 73 Israelis, and which published the video of Falter’s police interaction.

Most outlets failed to mention that Falter has for months been lobbying to ban the weekly pro-Palestine demonstrations.

In December, Falter gave oral evidence to the home affairs committee, castigating Rowley for permitting the demos. In November, the CAA held a rival anti-antisemitism march, which caused controversy after attracting far-right figurehead Tommy Robinson. Falter has on multiple occasions driven CAA propaganda vans through the Palestine demos.

Falter claims he was just passing through when he came across the demo. Evidence shared with Novara Media suggests he wasn’t.

“Last weekend I went to synagogue, as I do most Saturdays,” Falter wrote in his Times op-ed. “After the service I went for a walk, as I do most Saturdays.”

“I’m just a Jew in London trying to cross the road,” Falter can be heard telling an officer in the video.

Yet video footage and eyewitness testimony shared with Novara Media calls Falter’s narrative into question.

Getting to the truth.

Caolán, who requested that Novara Media only use his first name, saw Falter in Russell Square at around 11.30am on 13 April, over an hour before the march set off and long before any Shabbat service would have ended. Dan, who also asked to be referred to by his first name for fear of professional reprisal, spotted the group walking along Southampton Street near Holborn at around 1pm. It would be a further hour before freelance investigative journalist John Lubbock captured Falter’s altercation with police a few hundred metres away, on Aldwych, at around 2pm.

Speaking to Novara Media, Lubbock said that Falter appeared to have crossed onto Aldwych from the righthand side of the road, where a small pro-Israel counter-demonstration was taking place. “The obvious conclusion was that he had been part of that demonstration,” said Lubbock. In the CAA video, the officer can be seen offering to escort Falter to the Israel flags.

https://twitter.com/jwsal/status/1782143283176616271

In his Times op-ed, Falter speaks of being accompanied by a group of five men. The video evidence suggests these weren’t just any individuals but included bodyguards and a videographer (in the majority of traditions, it is against Jewish law to use electronic devices on the Sabbath).

“He wasn’t being provocative because he was wearing a kippah,” said Lubbock. “He was being provocative because he was with a group of large bouncers. People wear uniforms that show political affiliations, we know how subcultures work. … He’s gone there to provoke.”

Sure enough, the officer in the video can be seen telling Falter: “I’ve already seen you deliberately leave the pavement and walk against this march”, describing his claim to be simply passing through as “disingenuous”.

On Monday morning, Falter was interviewed on Sky News alongside Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) director Ben Jamal.

Hours earlier, the PSC and other march co-organisers had published a joint statement condemning Falter’s “dishonest antics”. Jamal elaborated on these remarks in the Sky interview, pointing out to Falter that hundreds of Jews have participated in the pro-Palestine demonstrations as part of an organised Jewish bloc.

Falter described Jamal’s claim as “rubbish” before saying “I don’t want to continue having a conversation with Ben Jamal”.

A photo has since emerged of a group of Jewish elders — among them Hungarian Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos — holding up pro-Palestine placards metres away from Falter.

https://novaramedia.com/2024/04/22/did-an-israel-lobbyist-confect-an-antisemitism-story-about-a-palestine-demo/

By Monday, Falter’s story was beginning to ring hollow even to establishment politicians and journalists.

“Listening now to the full account of the ‘openly Jewish’ incident,” tweeted ex-Times journalist David Aaronovitch, “it is apparent that Gideon Falter was angling for an incident just like this.”

“Having now seen the longer video of the police interaction with Gideon Falter, I see that we have been misled,” wrote former crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal, “The officer may have been more careful with his words, but Mr Falter was provocative to the point that an arrest for breach of the peace might have been justified.”

“I have watched the … clip that’s on Sky News and it’s a totally different encounter to the one Gideon Falter has reported,” former Metropolitan police chief superintendent Dal Babu told the BBC. “The narrative that’s been pushed is not accurate.”

Meanwhile, government “antisemitism tsar” Lord John Mann appeared on BBC News arguing that Falter and the CAA “have other objectives in this” and “are not playing it straight”.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism did not respond to Novara Media’s request for comment.

From that encounter where Falter tried to instigate actions against him to falsely portray himself and by extension all Jews as the eternal and most worthy of victims:

https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1782504085444329766
https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1782521331814146342; also see https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1782487787326915070

Police officer: “Well, I’ve been told that you keep running into the protestors.”

Ziofascist propagandist Gideon Falter [lying]: “That’s not true.”

2nd Police officer: “He’s saying that you’ve been going in and out of the protestors.”

Ziofascist propagandist Gideon Falter [distracting]: “I don’t know who he is.” [So what?]

Police officer: “He’s an officer.”

Yet more on the Ziofascist Israeli security (“RSA” is “an American computer and network security company with a focus on encryption and encryption standards. RSA was named after the initials of its co-founders, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, after whom the RSA public key cryptography algorithm was also named”):

https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1736321682510364986
https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1782506501879271567
https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1782570034876874768
https://www.sqrgroup.com/staff/vicentiu-chiculita/
https://twitter.com/rivkahbrown/status/1782555896733671464; https://twitter.com/rivkahbrown/status/1782460018719117513
https://twitter.com/LouiseRawAuthor/status/1782116332764332165
https://twitter.com/LouiseRawAuthor/status/1782116336237199734; https://twitter.com/LouiseRawAuthor/status/1782116338460233915
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1782452101676667271

May 12: Oxford

https://twitter.com/_MadeleineJane/status/1789775011152109590

Ziofascist in white t-shirt: “Terrorist, terrorist, terrorist! Sporting/spoiling[?] a genocide. Don’t touch me, touch me, I fucking dare you, I fucking kill you. I fucking kill you. Israel, Israel we love you.”

https://twitter.com/_MadeleineJane/status/1789775058186998246
https://twitter.com/_MadeleineJane/status/1789775065208209630
https://twitter.com/_MadeleineJane/status/1789775072615420100
https://twitter.com/_MadeleineJane/status/1789775123517444220
https://twitter.com/_MadeleineJane/status/1789777670458216785
https://twitter.com/_MadeleineJane/status/1789778507020542283
https://twitter.com/_MadeleineJane/status/1789779164033163450
https://twitter.com/_MadeleineJane/status/1789786244563517821
https://twitter.com/OxAct4Pal/status/1789637759289655432

May 16

https://x.com/Bushra1Shaikh/status/1791233220878405725; also see https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1791224630302163392

GBN Propagandist: “Hello, just wondering if you’d like to, ah, have any discussion at all with Suella today?” [gets ignored]

Ziofascist and fired former Home Secretary Suella Braverman: “Hi, I’m Suella. I’m keen to, ah, find out your views and what you are protesting about.” [gets ignored] […] “Interested in why you are covering your faces. Is it a Covid or a health measure?” [gets ignored]

https://x.com/Bushra1Shaikh/status/1791233220878405725

May 17

https://x.com/I_amMukhtar/status/1791464979402514871

May 23

https://x.com/OxfordUCU/status/1793584747937157567 to https://x.com/OxfordUCU/status/1793584762998997084
https://x.com/Orwell420/status/1793605159173386313 to https://x.com/chipslasagne2/status/1793611572289650718

May 24

May 25

https://x.com/TalkTV/status/1794441266123489791

The following video starts with the self-described IDF soldier having ripped off a woman’s hijab (see the commotion in the background). He is consequently confronted by the black woman on the left which keeps filming at least after the hate crime incident:

https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1794483936963268745; also see https://x.com/DillyHussain88/status/1794291215166509341
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1794483936963268745
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1794483940222243305; https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1794484208510947419
https://x.com/DillyHussain88/status/1794396615626588178

May 28

https://x.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1795544692076990615

June 2

https://x.com/NewhamIndParty/status/1797250528658763805

June 17

https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1802778502317650349

5. Canada

April 23: Toronto, Ontario

https://twitter.com/beisan/status/1782530606888255489
https://twitter.com/beisan/status/1782530609484615715; https://twitter.com/beisan/status/1782531131151171875
https://twitter.com/beisan/status/1782884118226665908

April 27

https://twitter.com/EnglerYves/status/1784312036878319711
https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1784289813417369868

May 5

https://twitter.com/shailjapatel/status/1787258880226975841; https://twitter.com/SMohyeddin/status/1787217797992346094
https://twitter.com/SMohyeddin/status/1787217797992346094

May 11

https://x.com/Mondoweiss/status/1789369937435246815; https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/toronto-school-promoting-israeli-military-deemed-charity/

At the start of March, 36 students at TanenbaumCHAT, Canada’s largest private high school, traveled to a state that has slaughtered 15,000 children over the past seven months. The Toronto high school described it as a “Solidarity Mission to Israel.” In its description of the trip, the school reports that students were “BBQ-ing for soldiers on an army base”.

The group also met privately with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who reportedly told them, “You are here — the first school since 7/10 — standing with us, and we stand with you. There are many voices against us, but I say to you all, be proud, stand strong. Together we will prevail.”

The students who participated in the “Solidarity Mission” reported back to the entire school about visiting a state committing genocide.

In another pro-war extracurricular, TanenbaumCHAT sent “almost 700” students on fifteen buses to the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs pro-genocide rally in Ottawa on December 4. The school also sent 150 students to a November 15 rally in Washington, D.C. promoting Israel’s killing in Gaza.

As Israel has unleashed a holocaust in Gaza, the school has repeatedly posted to its Facebook about initiatives it has organized to support that country. They recently hosted a “FUNDfair to raise money for Israel” and all grade 12s were given a copy of Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel Noa Tishby’s book Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth. The head of the colonial Jewish Agency and a mother of a captive in Gaza have also spoken at the school. An April 18 Passover message by the school’s head, Jonathan Levy, focused on the genocide in Gaza, describing “the centrality of Israel” to TanenbaumCHAT.

The registered Canadian charity has long promoted the apartheid state. According to TanenbaumCHAT’s statement of purpose, “Israel engagement pervades our curricular and extracurricular programming and it is a shared vision — part of the consciousness of all our teachers and educators. Through connecting with our staff, guests and visiting speakers, our students develop relationships with Israeli peers and other Israeli role models. Students enjoy special Israel weeks and IDF days.”

The school has an Israel Engagement club, organizes an Israel Gap Year Fair and a program in which young Israelis who spend a year in Toronto are seconded to the school. They also organize student trips to Zionist events such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington D.C.

Israeli officials often speak at the school. Last year Israel’s minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, visited the school as part of an initiative to substantially increase Israel’s investment in North American Jewish schools ($53 million was announced).

Canada’s largest private high school hosts “IDF Days” that fundraise for Israeli military initiatives. A summary of a 2020 IDF day noted that students “showed their support for the Israel Defence Forces by wearing green, eating green and donating green! Proceeds from the delicious green-sprinkled donuts that were sold during 10-minute break are being donated to help the well-being of Israeli soldiers on active duty on behalf of TanenbaumCHAT thru the Association for the Soldiers of Israel — Canada.”

As part of supporting a foreign military, TanenbaumCHAT has also induced students into joining the Israeli military in possible contravention of Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act. A year and a half ago the school honoured a member of the IDF’s elite Sayeret Matkal, earlier the IDF Orchestra performed and in 2019 Colonel Barak Hiram spoke to the students about “being a new recruit and a seasoned commander in the Golani Brigade.” The school’s website advertised a fund that assists students wanting to join the Israeli military. It noted, the “Continuing Studies in Israel Judy Shaviv Memorial Fund ‘Keren Yad Yehudit’ assists graduates to serve in the IDF, study or volunteer.”

The high school also celebrates graduates who have served in the IDF and has them speak about joining the Israeli military. According to its site, “During Shavua Israel (Israel Week) in February 2020, Seth Frieberg ’08 [graduate] spoke to students about his experiences as a Lone Soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. Bringing into focus his personal connection to Israel, he noted that ‘this was basically 14 months where every day I was doing something that, for me, was a meaningful and substantial way to give back to Israel.’”

Registered charities are not allowed to support other countries’ militaries. Canada Revenue Agency guidelines state that “supporting the armed forces of another country is not” charitable. Last year a formal request was submitted to the CRA to investigate whether TanenbaumCHAT was complying with its rules. It’s unclear if the Revenue Agency acted as its audits are private matters. But the CRA should investigate the school and revoke its charitable status if it has contravened its policy.

The school has received large amounts in tax-deductible donations. Since the start of the century, TanenbaumCHAT has declared receiving $300 million in direct donations. Additionally, the school has received $60 million from other registered charities. With around 1/3 covered by taxpayers, the total public assistance to TanenbaumCHAT amounts to $100 million since 2000.

It’s scandalous that even a cent in public money is going to a school sending students to barbecue for soldiers committing genocide.

https://x.com/Amir616/status/1789682132501287144
https://x.com/Amir616/status/1789682134795579555 to https://x.com/Amir616/status/1789682146480984471
https://x.com/Amir616/status/1789682149538582568; https://x.com/Amir616/status/1789682152369787324

May 29

https://x.com/Heidi__Matthews/status/1795894099490246946; https://www.alexneve.ca/blog/a-call-for-canadian-support-for-the-iccs-palestineisrael-case

I am honoured to be among 375 Canadian law professors, lawyers, legal scholars, academics, civil society, faith and labour movement leaders, and former diplomats and parliamentarians, who have written the following Open Letter to the Prime Minister calling for his government to to issue a clear statement of support for the work of the International Criminal Court with respect to the situation in Palestine, which includes the following key elements:

* Canada fully respects the ICC, unequivocally embraces the Court’s independence, and unconditionally supports the work of the Court in this matter, including investigations of alleged crimes committed by both Israeli and Hamas officials.

* Canada will fully cooperate with the ICC in the Palestine situation, in keeping with Canada’s obligations under the Rome Statute, including providing any assistance requested with respect to evidence and witnesses, and executing arrest warrants if any individuals sought by the Court come within Canadian jurisdiction.

* Canada condemns any threats made against ICC personnel in connection with this situation, or any situations or cases pursued by the Court, and specifically calls on all actors, both at home and abroad, to refrain from imposing or threatening to impose any sanctions or taking any other retaliatory measures against judges and court staff.

* Canada resolutely agrees that universality is a cardinal principle of international justice. No one should be excluded from accountability for crimes under international law, regardless of their nationality, political status, power and influence, or whether they serve in a democratic, autocratic or dictatorial government, or are part of an armed group.

* Canada calls on all governments, particularly those of ICC member states, to make similar expressions of unwavering support for and commitment to cooperate fully with the ICC, in relation to this and all matters under investigation or before the court.

May 31

https://x.com/DesmondCole/status/1796579699248017793

Police to Ziofascist woman: “You can’t pull a knife out.”

A man with a Canada flag who also suffers from entitlement syndrome tries to prevent a pro-Palestinian protestor from filming the scene because why not:

Ziofascist sociopath woman: “[…] we colonize(/d)[?] Canada first. Everybody go back to where they started. Sorry, you’re originally from Canada? Your ancestors are from Canada?”

Black female protester: “They were brought here — forcibly!”

Ziofascist sociopath woman: “So you’re colonizing Canada now.[!] Back to where you started.”

https://x.com/DesmondCole/status/1796579703891136968 to https://x.com/Gail_Nestel/status/1797253465598788049

6. France

April 24–30

https://twitter.com/maryamalwan/status/1783202588235817024
https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1783532714429149546
https://twitter.com/BeckettUnite/status/1783895187304906816
https://twitter.com/aisha_c10/status/1783815991803163119
https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1783804945969328501
https://twitter.com/Aboujahjah/status/1783889168050897233; https://twitter.com/r_chekkat/status/1783881995036029085
https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1784002264543408505
https://twitter.com/mosha3324/status/1785046533777301599

May 31

https://x.com/LFCNewsMedia/status/1796598118680543443
https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/1796433477614903497

7. Germany

April 23

https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1782661213471563949; https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/473956.sprachverbot-des-tages-hebr%C3%A4isch.html
https://twitter.com/PetraSchur/status/1782674058569507155; https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-pro-palestine-activists-stopped-from-speaking-irish-at-protest-berlin-police-6361297-Apr2024/

April 27

https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1784061668001042517

May 7

https://x.com/LaFay_Morrigan/status/1788182990289277412

May 12

https://x.com/Tarek_Bae/status/1789754754937078155
https://x.com/Tarek_Bae/status/1789755364226838756

May 17

Absurd denialism of Ziofascist Israel being a colonial entity:

https://x.com/LenaArkad/status/1791458177038397639; https://x.com/Golemiker/status/1791206218595209523
https://x.com/LenaArkad/status/1791461075059187974
https://x.com/LenaArkad/status/1791461078716534992

May 25

https://x.com/uncoovr/status/1794420770812092643

The policeman from the right appears to attack the press fotographer at this point, shouting “Auf den Boden/On the floor!” to which the person capturing the footage replies, while on the floor, “Ich bin Presse! Ich bin Presse!/I am press!”:

https://x.com/uncoovr/status/1794420770812092643

June 1

https://x.com/derJamesJackson/status/1796915271300505832

June 17

A summary:

https://x.com/Cominsitu/status/1802606342873456962
https://x.com/Cominsitu/status/1802607002012496032 to https://x.com/Cominsitu/status/1802608788907647050
https://x.com/Cominsitu/status/1802610075942502614 to https://x.com/Cominsitu/status/1802616435048325621

8. Greece

April 29

https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1785051076216918101

9. Ireland

May 6

https://twitter.com/PetraSchur/status/1787865011488014566; https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2024/05/06/trinity-college-dublin-to-divest-from-investments-in-israeli-companies-that-feature-on-a-united-nations-blacklist/

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has vowed to pull its investments in Israeli companies that feature on a United Nations “blacklist” while a taskforce to explore engagement with Israeli institutions is to be set up following a fourth day of student protests on the campus.

Students erected an encampment on Fellow’s Square on Friday night in protest against the university’s links to Israel, including investments, saying it would remain in place “indefinitely” until their demands are met.

Freedom of Information records seen by The Irish Times show the university’s endowment fund has invested in 13 Israeli companies, three of which feature on a United Nations Human Rights Council list of companies involved in illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The university has said individual companies are not “handpicked” by it, but rather chosen for its portfolio by investment managers.

Soon after the encampment was erected on Friday, the university restricted access to students and staff with valid college ID cards only to ensure student safety, while the Book of Kells exhibition, libraries and the sports centre have been closed until further notice.

TCD management met student representatives on Monday to discuss the issues raised by protesters in an effort to facilitate the return to normal university services for all staff, students and the public.

“In view of the disproportionate response we have seen at some institutions overseas, Trinity is committed to addressing the issue of the encampment as an internal process,” the university said in a statement issued on Monday evening. “We wish for a return to normal services for our students, staff, and the public as soon as possible.”

Following the talks, TCD said the process of divesting from investing in companies featured on the UN blacklist is expected to be completed by June.

Students have been calling for the university to cut all ties with Israel, including investments in the other 10 Israeli companies. They have also called on TCD to make “an unequivocal statement of solidarity condemning the ongoing genocide, destruction of infrastructure, settler-colonialism, apartheid and occupation of Palestine”.

The group has also called on TCD to commit to “reparations” which would fully support 100 Palestinian scholars to undertake their studies at the university.

“We fully understand the driving force behind the encampment on our campus and we are in solidarity with the students in our horror at what is happening in Gaza,” the TCD statement went on. “We abhor and condemn all violence and war, including the atrocities of October 7th and the continuing ferocious and disproportionate onslaught in Gaza. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the dehumanisation of its people is obscene.”

Alongside a pledge to divest from investing in some companies, the university said it has identified eight places for Gazan scholars to study at TCD.

“All fees have been waived for these scholars and Trinity will use its Sanctuary Fund to provide accommodation,” the university said. […]

10. Italy

April 23

https://twitter.com/Rrrrnessa/status/1782743558811697179

May 24

https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1793944631530635320

11. Netherlands

May 7

May 13

An out-of-control Amsterdam cop — perhaps a dual citizen Ziofascist who served in the IDF — beats a protester who is already on the ground on the head:

https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1790144054417850393

That cop then beats up a cornered protester who is in a purely defensive position and even strikes a blow to the top or, worse, to the back of the head when that protester is down too. Someone from inside the building can be heard exclaiming “Yo, yo, yo, what the fuck!”:

The out of control cop gets in four more strikes with his baton on the cornered, grounded and purely defending protester before getting pushed away by a more responsible cop who has seen enough from out of control cop:

May 14

https://x.com/SarahABracke/status/1790182083887079889
https://x.com/SarahABracke/status/1790182090371485898 to https://x.com/SarahABracke/status/1790182102878797972

Likely Ziofascist outside agitators in black came in to discredit the as usual peaceful student protest:

https://x.com/SarahABracke/status/1790182105391243462; https://x.com/SarahABracke/status/1790182107547091040; https://x.com/sevslv/status/1790088439817240789

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Gregor Flock
Gregor Flock

Written by Gregor Flock

independent philosopher (univie.academia.edu/GregorFlock) and journalist, Global Civil Society Network founder (www.gcsno.org/my-blog/), Tweets @GFlock_GCSN.

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