Hamas strike on Israel - Threadbans in op - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

The Pro-Palestinian protest movement is gathering momentum ~

In the news is McGill University, Montreal. Students say they won’t leave until their demands to divest are met. Some of those investments would be arms manufacturing companies selling arms to Israel, and other Israeli companies... If their demands are met - this will hurt Israel.

There is a heavy police presence on campus.

Canada’s largest university, the University of Toronto also has an encampment.

The University of Vancouver, British Columbia, has an encampment.

The embedded interactive map of university protests around the world - in below link - has been UPDATED to include more universities joining this movement.

Open link here to view interactive map (updated 3 May 2024):
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/P72QC/27/

Another link to the map here:

‘Protests and encampments at college campuses around the world in solidarity with Gaza’

‘Hundreds of students and staff at US universities have been arrested while protesting against Israel's war on Gaza. But the protests aren't limited to the US. Since the start of the war, they have spread to campuses in other parts of the world.’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/27/pro-palestinian-student-protests-spread-in-second-week-of-demonstrations

It seems some people have more rights than others. It's like the West Bank, with government enforcers turning a blind eye to people they like instigating violence:

“The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours, including beating them with sticks, using chemical sprays and launching fireworks as weapons,” the Times reported. “As of Friday, no arrests had been made in connection with the attack.”

The paper stated the attacks began at 10:50 p.m. “when a group of counterprotesters started tearing away metal barriers that had been in place to cordon off pro-Palestinian protesters” in an encampment that school officials declared illegal earlier in the day.

“Security personnel hired by the university are seen in yellow vests standing to the side throughout the incident,” the Times said. “A university spokesperson declined to comment on the security staff’s response.”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/pro-israel-counterprotestors-instigated-violence-against-pro-palestine-demonstrators-ny-times-finds/

Yet another death in custody -

"A Palestinian doctor has died in an Israeli prison after more than four months in detention, Palestinian prisoner associations have said.

Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, 50, was the head of orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hospital.

The Israeli prison service confirmed that a statement published on 19 April
about a prisoner who was detained for national security reasons and had
died in Ofer prison was Dr Al-Bursh.

No details were given on the cause of death, and the prison service said the incident was being investigated."

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said in a statement that Dr Al-Bursh’s death meant that the total number of medical workers who had been killed by Israel since the 7 October attack now stands at 496.

It added that 1,500 others had been wounded while 309 had been arrested.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cer3740ddj3o

So now you're blaming innocent people for the lives of their innocent children. Pure twisting again from you. There's only one source to blame for the deaths of innocents and that's those who willfully kill them and in this case it's Israel and willful killing is also murder.

Indeed. If that was democracy then jaysus help us all.

"Israeli laws, policies and practices against Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories amount to
apartheid, Amnesty International says."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60197918

Hilarious, the student union shut down access the book of Kell’s losing Trinity money and they fined them the 214,000. It’s easy to be distributive when you’re not footing the bill not so much when they pass the cost onto you.

The student union president should be expelled too. You’ve no right to block others from the college.

https://www.thejournal.ie/trinity-college-fines-students-union-214000-over-book-of-kells-protests-6370260-May2024/

You can protest but you don’t have the right to block others from access to a national treasure, you will be held financially responsible for the consequences of your actions.

Disrupting normal people, blocking access, roads, encampment is half way there to terrorism. If you need to protest please do, but don't disrupt, intimidate or in any other way prevent people from doing what they have the right to do.

People have the right to protest. Calling protest halfway to terrorism is one hell of a bootlicking. Protests are by nature, inherently disruptive.

The treasure will be fine for a few days, you act like they pissed on it or something.

That figure is intangible.

Universities having snit fits over relations with Israel (that benefit TCD In this case) are useless. What Gazans want is to be rid of Hamas:

"If the protesters cared about Palestinians, they would have one central demand: Hamas must surrender, because we have all suffered from Hamas and can no longer live under the rule of a terrorist group. Only then can a ceasefire be achieved."

https://www.newsweek.com/message-gazan-campus-protesters-youre-hurting-palestinian-cause-opinion-1894313

According to the article Potato linked, the union is paid by enrollment fees, and the union is a membership therefore of all students. Reportedly the proposed fine is about 1/3rd of the union's annual budget. Essentially the college is just intending to take 1/3rd of the union's budget, because reasons. What it intends to do with the money is anyone's guess, presumably into the same accounting that would normally receive revenue from visits of the Book of Kells, however that works in detail. Expect a legal battle over that.

Halfway to terrorism you say? Blocking access, roads and encampments you say? Like the Israelis blocking aid going into Gaza?

It's bad enough that people like you excuse Israel's mass murder of Palestinians but now you're accusing protestors of being terrorists. You and others like you really need to take a long hard look in the mirror.

Ireland is doing a very fine job of showing and pointing out the crimes being committed every day in Gaza by the Israelis. Our country is pointing out the genocide and war crimes to the world.