A university-based pro-Palestinian protest movement that has made headlines in the United States is being mirrored in Australia.
Encampment s have sprung up at campuses in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra, with participants are calling on their teaching institutions to disclose and cut ties with weapons manufacturers they say are supplying arms to Israel .
On Thursday they faced off with members of Australasian Union of Jewish Students , who called for social cohesion. Police said they had responded to reports of people "causing trouble", and moved 10 people on just before 1am. "We have received no communication from the university in response to our demands, in response to our calls to publicly meet and debate us around whether our university should be complicit," he said."We are a camp that is welcome to all religions, ethnicities and races," he said.
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