Edinburgh University responds as students stage walk out over Israel | The National (2025-07-15)
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25310336.edinburgh-university-responds-students-stage-walk-israel/
———
>> Video shared on Instagram showed Thursday’s events – which were for graduates of the university’s School of Social and Political Science…
>> Graduates waved flags with slogans such as “No universities in Gaza”, “Jews say divest”, and “Fund teaching not genocide” as they took to the stage.
>> A large group of students were seen to rise, chanting, before walking out of the ceremony.
>> The Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society posted other clips and reported that further protests had happened during ceremonies for biomedical sciences, engineering, chemistry, physics, and English.
>> It came after a report by #FrancescaAlbanese, … named the University of Edinburgh as one of “the most financially entangled” institutions in the UK to Israel.
#EconomyOfGenocide @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel