‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests
05-05-2024 13:56 via theguardian.com

‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests

Pro-Palestine protesters hope encampments at universities will contribute to an ‘international student revolt’ Students across Britain have said they hope pro-Palestine protests will reach the same scale as those seen on US campuses as they call for universities to divest from companies supplying arms to Israel.Protests have spread across university campuses in Sheffield, Bristol and Leeds, after a crackdown in the US on protests, which led to mass arrests of students and staff. Cont
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