from thefreeonline on 30th April 2o24 by Ester Fayos at La Directa * translation thefreeonline
The student movement sets up a camp, for now indefinite, at the Faculty of Philosophy in solidarity with Palestine and to denounce the “genocide perpetrated by the colonial State of Israel in Gaza”.
The protest adds to the wave of pro-Palestinian mobilizations started in recent days at universities in the United States
Camping in solidarity with Palestine at the University of Valencia | file
Esther Fayos
It’s three o’clock in the afternoon on Monday, April 29, and the first students with their tents are starting to arrive at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Valencia. Around thirty tents and eighty people fill the hall of the faculty when it is ten o’clock at night.
Through WhatsApp and Telegram groups, the call for a first assembly to organize what has been called “Solidarity camp with Palestine”, the first in Spain, has been shared.
They are students and teachers “in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to contribute to the end of the genocide perpetrated by the colonial State of Israel in Gaza”.
This is how they present themselves in a manifesto sent to the media this Monday.
Onada repressiva a València contra l’activisme en solidaritat amb Palestina *Repressive wave in Valencia against activism in solidarity with Palestine Ester FayosImatges | Lucas Guerra
“This is the genocide best documented audiovisually by its victims and its perpetrators, the worst genocide we have experienced in our lifetime and the genocide that speaks worst of the North Atlantic, due to its complicity with the Israeli apartheid regime “, they receive.
For the time being, the camping at the Faculty of Philosophy remains “indefinite”.
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