La Trobe on Friday followed Deakin in issuing a formal directive for protesters to end their encampment
Pro-Palestine encampment at Deakin University’s Burwood campus in Melbourne on Tuesday before it was issued a formal directive to end.Pro-Palestine encampment at Deakin University’s Burwood campus in Melbourne on Tuesday before it was issued a formal directive to end.Pro-Palestine students and staff at La Trobe University have called the university’s directive to end their sit-in an “attack on free speech”, and vowed to rally against the encampment crackdown until management meets their demands.
The students have renamed the Arts West building Mahmoud Hall – in honour of a Palestinian student Mahmoud who they say intended to study at the university but was killed in Gaza last year. In a statement on Friday, the university said it was “deeply concerned by this occupation” and warned that police “may choose to attend campus at any time”.
On Friday, Deakin Students for Palestine said an on-campus encampment would hold a “closing rally” next Wednesday, after defying a second The National Tertiary Education Union ‘s Monash branch upheld a motion on Saturday condemning management’s use of student misconduct regulations against the Monash protesters and demanding they be dropped.
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