UBC encampments

UBC students establish encampment in solidarity with Palestine

By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer On Monday, April 29, members of the UBC community set up an encampment at their MacInnes Field to protest the university’s lack of action for Palestine. The camp amassed “about 100 people and 75 tents,” with signs posted around the area like “Free Gaza” and “Palestine Forever.” The encampment and protest followed after the People’s University, a student-led movement for Palestinian liberation, presented their demands to the university. The demands included divestment from Israeli companies and academic boycotts of Israeli universities and institutions who are “complicit in the Israeli apartheid regime and in the oppression…

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