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| Swiss police clear anti-Israel encampment at University of Bern |
| 2024-05-17 |
| [IsraelTimes] Protest one of many to sprout across Western European campuses over the past few weeks, emulating similar ones in US Swiss police moved early on Wednesday to remove dozens of pro-Paleostinian student protesters holed up in the University of Bern, the school said in a statement. Student demonstrations have gathered pace across Western Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in recent weeks, with protesters demanding an end to the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... bloodshed and urging that their universities cut ties with Israel and businesses that support it. Dozens of demonstrators had been occupying university premises since Sunday night. The students were demanding an "academic boycott of Israel institutions" and ignored a university ultimatum to leave the premises. Swiss police acted following a request by the Bern university’s management, which had described the student occupation as "unacceptable." The last of around 30 protesters left the Bern university early Wednesday. They chanted pro-Paleostinian slogans outside the building before leaving the area, a journalist from the Keystone-ATS agency said. University rector Christian Leumann said in a statement published on Wednesday that he was open to talks but that "an occupation with politically motivated demands does not create an environment for constructive dialogue." The first to mobilize in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... were students at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), with several hundred occupying a hall at the start of May and demanding an end to partnerships with Israeli universities. The university later responded in a statement that it "considers that there is no reason to cease these relations." A small number of universities have seen student groups dismantle their own encampments as many colleges empty out for the summer, while activists on most other campuses have refused to let up, prompting police to carry out arrests. Police arrested about 125 activists at the University of Amsterdam as they broke up its camp, and German police dismantled an encampment at Berlin’s Free University. Students have also held protests or set up encampments in Finland, Denmark, Italia, Spain, La Belle France and Britannia. On Tuesday, Swiss police in Geneva removed around 50 pro-Paleostinian protesters from a university there. |
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