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Well, this is what I think of the King’s ‘victory’.
Demand 1: That KCL issue a formal statement condemning Israel. Failed – Universities UK statement re-issued. KCL refuses outright to condemn Israel.
Demand 2: Revoke Shimon Peres’s Honorary Doctorate. Failed – Principal ‘will write a letter’. KCL refuses outright to revoke doctorate.
Demand 3: 5 fully funded scholarships. Failed – KCL will ‘play an active role in the national initiative, encouraged by UUK, to increase scholarships for Palestinians to study in this country. This will form part of a wider increased College academic engagement with the Middle East more generally.’ Not the same thing.
Demand 4: Cross-campus fundraising day. Success. ‘We expect to work directly with the students’ union to raise funds for the humanitarian effort in a student led-initiative’.
Demand 5: Establish links with Gaza universities and other educational institutions ‘in solidarity with their plight’. Failed – KCL ‘where appropriate intend to build on existing links with Palestinian universities’, again as ‘part of a wider increased College academic engagement with the Middle East more generally’. No mention of links with non-University institutions, or of ’solidarity’.
Demand 6: Transparent investment policy, specifically regarding arms shares. Failed. Principal is ‘happy to forward for consideration by the relevant Council committee proposals by these students advocating a policy of investment which would attempt to avoid any investment in the arms trade.’ He notes ‘the issue is far more complex than it first appears’, and makes no commitment towards rejecting arms investment.
Demand 7: That old books etc. be donated to Palestinian universities. Success? ‘We expect to work directly with the students’ union… to provide practical assistance in the shape of books and equipment, to Palestinian higher education establishments, where practical.’ The ‘where practical’ looms over this statement, but it is still a success.
Demand 8: That nothing bad happens to the students. Success.
I count three successes for the sit-in. There will be a fundraising day, and there is a commitment of sorts to send equipment over to Palestine. Also nothing nasty will happen to the students, which is a huge relief for all, because who would want to suffer for all the things that have been gained?
Oh, and as an afterthought:
Actual difference made to the life of a single Palestinian? None.
“Demand 4: Cross-campus fundraising day. Success. ‘We expect to work directly with the students’ union to raise funds for the humanitarian effort in a student led-initiative’.”
That was so uncontroversial that JSoc supported it.
Want to becone a rich man in Israel? Become an exorcist.
(If you didnt get it, its cos all the zionists must be possessed by the devil). How else can a people be so evil. Its horrific. Not only have they blocked food/water and basic necessities from going into Gaza for 18months, not only have they then murdered thousands, destroyed thousands of buildings, schools, mosques, UN warehouses, used illegal weapons, the list is endless, they are now blocking all the aid being sent from around the world to gaza to alleviate the suffering and destruction. How sick can you get.
Isreal = Nazi’s of the 21st century.
Gavin,
You didn’t lift a finger when Hamas bombed Israel for 8 years, they bombed schools, civilian towns, kindergartens and such targets, they hold a soldier captive without providing him any human rights,and now when Israel did what every other nation would have done – you suddenly point your bloody finger?
And you dare comparing the Palestinians, who have hundreds of tonnes of humanitarian aid entering Gaza every day – to the Holocaust?
How sick you can get?
Gavin, you can’t even spell “Israel”.
Goldsmiths win scholarships in just 2 days!!! 2 for Palestine and 2 for elsewhere in the world!!!
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass, 1857
Just a lot of posturing by middle class posers who will look back on their left wing student days with wistful embarrasment ten years from now.
No, Gavin is soooo right. I know all the Palestinians cos I spent a week in the summer of my second year; they know that Islam mean peace and they would never hurt even a fly. If they’ve ever killed anyone, it’s only because the evil Isrealis have mind-controlled them with their Jew-rays.
Whatever and Isreeli tells you, it’s always a complete lie, because all along their true plan has been to manufacture threats to the existence of their state so that the rest of the world has sympathy for them and their global Jewish conspiracy can continue.
I mean I’m not saying he’s perfect, but at least Hitler had the guts to recognise the problem and deal with it.