Encampments and demonstrations can be seen being set up on University campus’ across the UK in Edinburgh, Warwick, Manchester and Sheffield, all in protest of the Israel-Gaza war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 1 May, students from the University of Sheffield could be seen setting up a camp outside the Students Union. The Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine (SCCP) have been demonstrating there for over a week now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One student spoke to ShefNews, but asked to remain anonymous out of fears of facing disciplinary action from the University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We have various points of contact with all the other universities. As of now, there isn’t one big network but people are <\/em>connected with activists all over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We all believe the university should not be supplying weaponry to genocidal states and we want transparency and accountability from them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In their mission statement, the group specifies they they want to ‘dismantle the institutional complicity of the University in Israel\u2019s occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They also say that they want to ‘provide material and political support for Palestinian students and all those who engage in political activism on campus’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, it mentions the desire to bolster ‘the campus’ awareness of and its engagement with Palestinian solidarity through historical, political and cultural education’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday, protestors disrupted the Universities education award ceremony by taking to the stage. Demonstrators were chanting ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘University of Sheffield, blood on your hands’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n