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@KingsCollegeLon Student-Staff Coalition for a Free Palestine #KCLDivest #KCLEndComplicity Follow the official page of the KCL encampment at @kcl4justice
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In the middle of the UK-funded genocide in Gaza,
@KingsCollegeLon
is hosting a "Defence" Conference with representatives from NATO, BAE systems, UK army & MBDA missile systems. Outrageous. KCL folks, support student demands to DEMILITARISE & DIVEST here:
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We spent 7 months sending petitions to management signed by 1000s of us, asking
@KingsCollegeLon
to end its complicity in Israel's genocide. Management ignored us. Now we are escalating! Students launched an encampment & will keep protesting until the uni meets their 5 demands 👇🏼
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🇵🇸ANOTHER MAJOR VICTORY AT KCL!🇵🇸
Our student-staff campaign has forced
@KingsCollegeLon
to REINSTATE Hassan, Alizeh & Sadaf, our three brave
@kclsu
officers suspended for challenging the SU silence and complicity in Israel's genocide. Their suspension has been lifted! WE WON!
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BREAKING: Students today launched a Palestine solidarity encampment at
@KingsCollegeLon
-- KCL is one of the UK universities with the closest academic and financial ties with Israel, yet it claims to be "impartial". Students don't buy these lies and demand BOYCOTT & DIVESTMENT.
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BREAKING: over 200 academics at
@KingsCollegeLon
pledge to boycott Israeli universities and complicit corporations. In genocide, there is no neutrality - you are either with or speak out against it. Enough silence, KCL! We demand action NOW!
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLendComplicity
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🆘The KCL encampment needs your help! 🆘
Yesterday
@KingsCollegeLon
denied entry to Dr
@AzzamTamimi
who was scheduled to speak at the encampment.
If you're a KCL student, staff or alumnus/a, please support the encampment by signing this open letter:
Today Dr
@AzzamTamimi
was invited to address the students at the KCL encampment but the university authorities refused to allow him to enter. Instead he delivered his speech about liberation to the students from outside the locked gates. The optics are fitting of the situation.
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Shame on our complicit managerial class. It's been 7 months, 35000+ Palestinian civilians murdered, Gaza flattened, ICJ declares plausible genocide. Yet
@KingsCollegeLon
insists in calling it "conflict in Israel and Gaza". Utterly disgraceful. Victory to our brave students!
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Our uni
@KingsCollegeLon
's policy of "value based impartiality" in full display today: intimidate students protesting the uni's complicity in a UK-sponsored genocide while hosting NATO, UK army, BAE systems on campus to speak at a "defence" conference on "fighting terrorism".
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Hey
@KingsCollegeLon
why haven't you replied to the
@kcl4justice
demands? Why are you still refusing to commemorate the murder of our alumnus Dr Adnan Al-Bursh? Why haven't you once used the word PALESTINE in your official correspondence since October? And how is this "neutral"??
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Our uni
@KingsCollegeLon
is among the UK unis most clearly implicated in the war machine that has killed 40k Palestinians, and today was more proof: NATO, UK army, BAE reps invited to campus to teach our students how to "fight terrorism". ENOUGH!
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLEndComplicity
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For months, students & staff have tirelessly urged
@KingsCollegeLon
to ethically divest & instead we got a policy of "neutrality"! Now more than 200 of us make this pledge to boycott & divest. Together, we demand ethical divestment, not silent complicity!
#KCLDivestNow
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UPDATE: the KCL academics pledging to boycott Israeli universities and complicit corporations are now *508* ✊🏼🇵🇸
@KingsCollegeLon
, time to divest NOW!
BREAKING: over 200 academics at
@KingsCollegeLon
pledge to boycott Israeli universities and complicit corporations. In genocide, there is no neutrality - you are either with or speak out against it. Enough silence, KCL! We demand action NOW!
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLendComplicity
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KCL students and staff have spoken. Day 7 of student encampment. 350+ academics pledged to boycott & divest.
@KingsCollegeLon
keeps being silent on the ongoing genocide, but happily host UK army, NATO, BAE, MBDA missiles representatives. SHAME!
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLEndComplicity
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Our union branch
@KCL_UCU
has just released a strong statement of support for the
@kcl4justice
encampment ✊🏼
"We urgently call on management to meet with members of the encampment to discuss their demands". Are you listening,
@KingsCollegeLon
?
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLEndComplicity
As a UCU branch, and in line with our union's policy, we stand in solidarity with the King’s student encampment and with the global student movement organising against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Read our full statement here:
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Our students have created an amazing educational space at the
@kcl4justice
encampment - it's a space that finally feels like a real university and not a neoliberal corporation.
KCL students, staff & alumni, show your support by signing this open letter:
Beautiful convos today at the
@KingsCollegeLon
encampment.
‘i see this as a part of my education, it’s about putting into practice some of the ideas & principles we are learning about’
Heartened to hear that several local businesses are also bringing the students food 🍉
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Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza is intensifying. 35k+ civilians murdered. Are you a KCL member of staff wandering how you can support Palestine solidarity efforts? Here's what you can do:
1) SIGN the open letter in support of the KCL student encampment
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If you are a KCL academic and you want to sign, please send us a DM & we'll share the link with you!
Let's all raise our voices against
@KingsCollegeLon
's silence, inaction and complicity in the face of genocide
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLendComplicity
BREAKING: over 200 academics at
@KingsCollegeLon
pledge to boycott Israeli universities and complicit corporations. In genocide, there is no neutrality - you are either with or speak out against it. Enough silence, KCL! We demand action NOW!
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLendComplicity
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It was great to host you at KCL
@mayaywind
! All of us demand that
@QMUL
condemns the detention & torture of their employee, Global Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Speak up Colin Bailey, silence is complicity! A big shout-out to our comrades
@qm_ucu
&
@QMULPalestine
from KCL ✊🏼
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Our students are demanding an end to
@KingsCollegeLon
's complicity in Israel's genocide. KCL refuses to engage with their demands & has instead imposed additional surveillance measures on the encampment to identify & censor the students. Support & SIGN:
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🆘Please keep supporting the KCL encampment 🆘
Our brave KCL students keep protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza in the face of
@KingsCollegeLon
's attempts to intimidate & censor them.
KCL people, SIGN & SHARE this letter of support:
🆘The KCL encampment needs your help! 🆘
Yesterday
@KingsCollegeLon
denied entry to Dr
@AzzamTamimi
who was scheduled to speak at the encampment.
If you're a KCL student, staff or alumnus/a, please support the encampment by signing this open letter:
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You know what helps ameliorate or ‘prepare better’ for climate catastrophe?
Not arming & enabling a war. The first 2 months of bombing Gaza generated more planet-warming emissions than the annual carbon footprint of 20 climate-vulnerable nations.
A new £5m hub led by Dr
@helenjadams
and
@KingsCollegeLon
will help deliver faster and more impactful climate action in the UK.
The hub brings together expertise from all four nations to prepare better for the predicted effects of climate change.
Read:
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I believe, I believe, I believe that we will win! 🇵🇸✊🏼
30 university encampments across the UK and counting!
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Encampment
@KingsCollegeLon
set up!
#FreePalestine
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Manchester we love you! Sixth encampment in the UK and counting. The message is loud and clear: we want UK Higher Education to boycott, divest and demilitarise
#StopArmingIsrael
📣📣BREAKING: Students at the University of Manchester have set-up camp! Come along, join them and provide support! 📣📣
As the genocide in Gaza continues relentlessly, and following the recent wave of student escalation across the world against their complicit institutions,
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Still waiting for
@KingsCollegeLon
to announce a scholarship programme for Palestinian students, including one in the name of our slain alumni Dr Maisara Alrayyes (as our fantastic students
@kcl4justice
have demanded).
Apply for the Gaza-Palestine Postgraduate Taught Scholarship by 28 May 1pm (UK time). The 2024 scholarship covers the cost of tuition, accommodation in a single occupant en-suite room in University halls of residence & a maintenance award of £5,000.
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We asked KCL to end its complicity in Israel's ongoing genocide on Gaza.
@KingsCollegeLon
replied their policy is "neutrality". Today the uni hosts UK army commanders & weapon manufacturers at its "Defence" conference. So much for "neutrality!"
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLEndComplicity
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BREAKING: Students from Newcastle Apartheid off Campus have set up an encampment on Newcastle University’s main campus to highlight the institution’s investment strategy and its complicity in the Israeli military’s war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank 🚨🚨
#FreePalestine
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.
@KingsCollegeLon
adopted a policy of "value-based impartiality" in Oct 2024. An attempt to: 1) hide KCL's complicity in Israel's genocide 2) preserve those complicit partnerships and investments 3) shield management from criticism. The only "value" in the policy is colonialism.
Another
@KingsCollegeLon
alum killed by Israel. Adnan Al Bursh abducted, tortured. Maisara Alrayes killed in an airstrike, trapped under rubble for 30 hours. Yet,
@KingsCollegeLon
still silent, not even simple ceasefire call. This isn't neutrality, this silence is complicity.
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Shame on
@KingsCollegeLon
for this blatant disregard for freedom of speech on campus!
“So much for academia.”
Azzam Tamimi, a British-Palestinian academic, was denied entry by the university to King's College London's Gaza solidarity encampment on Wednesday.
Tamimi was invited to address the protesting students but delivered his speech about liberation from
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Follow the official twitter account of the KCL encampment & amplify their demands 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Now
@KingsCollegeLon
is scrambling to specify that Dr Adnan is not "technically" an "alumnus", he "just" held a fellowship at our university hospital. Empty verbal acrobatics at the service of genocide. KCL's silence is enabling the murder of members of our academic community.
Operating on a patient & asking a colleague to tie your phone under your cap so you can talk to your wife & children while your neighbourhood is being bombed.
Years ago Anatole Broyard said he wanted not only a physician but a metaphysician. Here was 1 of them
Rest in power
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SIGN & SHARE the open letter of support for the
@kcl4justice
encampment! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
We need as many signatures as possible. Gaza cannot wait.
@KingsCollegeLon
hasn't yet responded to student demands and has imposed new security and surveillance measures on the students. Shame!
🆘Please keep supporting the KCL encampment 🆘
Our brave KCL students keep protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza in the face of
@KingsCollegeLon
's attempts to intimidate & censor them.
KCL people, SIGN & SHARE this letter of support:
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Thank you so much for visiting our encampment
@Jamiejhagen
💚
Traveling in London and Manchester for a few days and visiting some student encampments in support of Palestine. Stopped by KCL yesterday to meet some of the students and it was so lovely to say hello! You can learn more about their actions & demands at
@KclPalestine
. 🍉
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.
@kcl4justice
students: bravely protesting war & decimation of peoples, cultures, societies.
@KingsCollegeLon
: we believe in/teach our students social justice, equity, sustainability […]
ALSO
@KingsCollegeLon
: *hosts of London Defence Conference*
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Our students have now been encamped for 7 days protesting
@KingsCollegeLon
's complicity in Israel's genocide. 350 academics signed a boycott pledge. KCL stays silent while inviting warmongers on campus. KCL people, SIGN & SHARE this letter of support:
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Likewise
@KingsCollegeLon
has yet to condemn his killing. Dr Adnan Al-Bursh trained at our university hospital. He was a member of our academic community. KCL justified its silence with the most cowardly, ridiculous excuses: "he's not in our records", "not technically an alumnus"
Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was a widely respected orthopaedic surgeon who trained in Jordan and the UK. He was killed after 4 months in Israeli detention. A fellow detainee testified to
@HCWWatch
that he was being tortured. Medical organisations have yet to condemn his killing.
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A carceral university that imprisons the student encampment behind bars and locks academics out.
@KingsCollegeLon
denied entry to Dr
@AzzamTamimi
& forced him
to speak from behind a metal fence. Shame!
Please support the encampment by signing this letter:
“So much for academia.”
Azzam Tamimi, a British-Palestinian academic, was denied entry by the university to King's College London's Gaza solidarity encampment on Wednesday.
Tamimi was invited to address the protesting students but delivered his speech about liberation from
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Good morning
@KingsCollegeLon
are you done "checking our records"? You really don't care that a member of our academic community was tortured to death after being kidnapped and thrown into jail by a genocidal regime, do you?
Meanwhile
@KingsCollegeLon
management are coming up with increasingly cowardly excuses not to say anything: "we didn't know", "it's not in our records". They want us to believe that their silence is "neutrality". Nonsense. Their silence is legitimising Israel's genocidal violence
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And the UK government is freaking out. We are winning.
Keep going
Haaretz now acknowledging that 'the stage is set for a full-blown wave of university divestment'
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2) SIGN our BDS pledge. We already have 260+ signatures [DM for link]
3) JOIN our union and attend
@KCL_UCU
branch meetings
4) COME to our student-staff assemblies [DM for details]
5) JOIN our discussion groups [DM for details]
6) SPEAK UP!
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Management at
@KingsCollegeLon
: "We have a brand new policy of value-based impartiality. We are not going to take a position about anything anymore. The university should be detached from society".
What "value-based impartiality" looks like in practice:
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Word.
An unelected PM violating the independence of the university to order VCs to consent to the oppression of our principled & courageous students with the full force of the state.
Fascism at home to support imperial genocide abroad.
VCs need to stand with students against the state!
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Hello
@ShitijKapur
@KingsCollegeLon
how was your visit to Downing Street this morning? Did you defend the right of your students and staff to protest a genocide, or did you just give in to the agenda of our racist , xenophobic, genocide-enabling government? Asking for a friend 🤗
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Free the people, free Mile End!
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Management at
@KingsCollegeLon
: "Our university should be detached from society. It's the only way to ensure academic freedom. We are so splendidly neutral"
Also
@KingsCollegeLon
: *rushes to take orders from the government about cracking down on campus protests*
UK universities are supposed to be self-governing autonomous institutions whose charters protect them from direct political interference from the state. This gathering has an ominous McCarthyite feel to it - reminiscent of the hounding College Presidents got from rw Congressmen.
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To this
@KingsCollegeLon
added that they won't take any positions anymore, because creationism was the academic consensus once, but then it was proven scientifically wrong, so how can you take a position if truth changes all the time? This example is literally in their policy.
Bristol Uni, 2022: "We stand with Ukraine in these terrible times."
Bristol Uni, 2024: "Our principles of free expression and academic freedom require us to remain impartial as an institution."
It's always a choice.
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If you want a short summary of why you should organise for BDS in academia, this is an excellent thread on our event with
@mayaywind
yesterday (thank you
@ingridharvold
!) 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Maya Wind
@mayaywind
now up at
@KingsIntDev
arguing that Israeli universities form an important pillar of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Her books shows how the Israeli unis are deeply implicated in settler colonialism.
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Good morning Cambridge! 🇵🇸✊🏼
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Amazing win, congratulations to our comrades at
@Gold4Palestine
! You're a source of inspiration for us all. One by one we'll get ALL universities in the UK to Boycott, Divest and Demilitarise.
@KingsCollegeLon
are you ready?
📣VICTORY FOR PALESTINE AT GOLDSMITHS📣
Goldsmiths management has conceded to Goldsmiths for Palestine demands‼️
We have won the first undergraduate Palestinian scholarships at a British university and huge wins on all of our other demands.
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Nah. So far
@KingsCollegeLon
is hiding behind the definition of "alumnus" in order not to say anything. They are way more concerned about covering their backs than about the torture and murder of a KCL-trained doctor at the hands of a genocidal regime.
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Meanwhile
@KingsCollegeLon
management are coming up with increasingly cowardly excuses not to say anything: "we didn't know", "it's not in our records". They want us to believe that their silence is "neutrality". Nonsense. Their silence is legitimising Israel's genocidal violence
Today, we mourn our colleague Dr Adnan Al-Bursh who was tortured to death in Israeli detention. Dr Al-Bursh had received training at
@KingsCollegeLon
and worked as surgeon and the head of orthopaedic medicine at Al-Shifa hospital. He is a hero and we are proud of him.
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Here for details -- note
@KingsCollegeLon
's trademark "ongoing conflict in Gaza" to designate Israel's ongoing genocide against Palestinians.
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Leeds too! "Decolonise this shit": the bottom line demand. Keep it going. Solidarity from London!
Solidarity with students at the Uni of Leeds who have started an encampment on campus. ✊
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Let's goooooo
Encampment Day 3 Schedule🇵🇸
Everyone is welcome, this is an opportunity to widen your understanding on an issue that goes far back in history and has deeper roots than we can imagine.
We look forward to hosting you all. ❤️🇵🇸✊
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Hey Shitij Kapur
@KingsCollegeLon
, how long are you going to continue ignoring your students?
(VC Shitij Kapur ignoring
@kcl4justice
students and walking away as they ask him to come speak to them)
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Victory to the student movement! Solidarity from KCL
🚨STUDENT ENCAMPMENT AT OLD COLLEGE🇵🇸
We have taken over Old College to demand divestment and an end to the colonial legacy of the Lord Arthur Balfour, previous chancellor at the University of Edinburgh. COME JOIN.
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Word!
We cannot comfortably sit in our rooms while our money razes universities in Palestine to the ground.
#KCLDivestNow
#KCLendComplicity
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Victory to the student movement! Solidarity from KCL.
Students of the University of Bristol have established an encampment jn protest of the university's complicity in Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Come join us at Royal Fort Gardens!
#FreePalestine
#UniversityofBristol
#ArmsOffCampus
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Sheffield coming through! We love to see it. Keep it up 🇵🇸✊ solidarity from KCL
People in Sheffield!
@sheffielduni
is now occupied in protest of the university's links with arms manufacturers. Come down and show your support ❤️
#freefree
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What an amazing day! We want to thank all our members who walked out in solidarity with 🇵🇸 & joined our rallies at Guy’s & Denmark Hill. The energy was overwhelming! It’s time for
@KingsCollegeLon
to listen to our demands and
#DivestNOW
& for the government to
#StopArmingIsrael
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