Pro-Palestine students at universities across the UK will hold rallies and events on Tuesday to mark two years of the Gaza conflict and remember Palestinian victims – despite Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer urging them to cancel on the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel. In London, a march by students from King’s College London, the London School of Economics, University College London and SOAS starts with a 2pm class walkout and heads through central campuses to call for university divestment from Israel.
At Queen Mary University in London, Action for Palestine is running a rally at Library Square on “two years of resistance,” while King’s College London’s Students for Justice in Palestine holds an evening debate on the conflict’s roots, and Goldsmiths for Palestine shows films at the Feminist Library in Peckham to “honour those lost”. In the north, the University of Sheffield has an on-campus rally led by its Revolutionary Communist Society, Strathclyde University protesters gather at Rottenrow Gardens in Glasgow for a ceasefire vigil, Edinburgh University’s Justice for Palestine Society meets at the main library, and Leeds University’s group discusses Gaza at a city-centre bookshop this evening. Other events today include a “bake sale” raising funds for aid at Liverpool University’s Guild of Students and a vigil in Birmingham to remember Palestinian lives taken since October 2023.
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