Hannah Gillott

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted graduations today (30/11), following the re-occupation of the Senate House lawn earlier this week. Around 50 people, including members of Cambridge for Palestine (C4P) alongside other student and union groups, staged a protest on King’s Parade as graduands lined up across the street to graduate at Great St Mary’s Church.

Pro-Palestinian students are threatening to disrupt graduations this weekend after a new encampment was set up on Senate House Lawn earlier this week. Cambridge for Palestine (C4P) held a rally outside Senate House and the Old Schools faculty yesterday (28/11) as a part of a national day of workplace action. Students were joined by the University and Colleges Union (UCU), alongside representatives from the National Education Union, and Unite the Union.

Pro-Palestinian protesters condemned Trinity College’s “complicity in genocide” yesterday afternoon (17/11), after the College backtracked on divesting from arms. The “Emergency Rally” yesterday afternoon was organised to express “anger” at Trinity’s “betrayal” of their promises to divest. “We are here today because the Master of this college has decided it’s okay to invest in arms,” one speaker said. “Trinity, how dare you invest in arms companies which kill children”.