26.03.25
Editorial Note
The Secretariat of Student Frameworks in Gaza, one of the BDS movement’s directive arms, has published a call for a global framework of action for the upcoming Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
Titled “From Rubble to Resistance: A Global Call from the Secretariat of Student Frameworks in Gaza to Action for Israeli Apartheid Week 2025,” the call begins by stating that “Israel has escalated its genocidal assault against us in Gaza, shattering the fragile ceasefire with carpet bombing, and intensifying mass starvation and ethnic cleansing of our people.” We “call on people of conscience around the world” to make IAW 2025, starting on Friday, March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a “pivotal moment in our joint struggle to dismantle the Israeli regime of settler-colonialism, genocide, and apartheid towards Palestinian liberation.”
According to this call, Gaza has been the launch point of IAW for over a decade, “amplifying Palestinian voices from within the largest open-air prison on earth.” However, they planned to commence IAW 2025 from the destroyed campus of the Al-Aqsa University, a site that once stood as a “symbol of Palestinian resilience, but has now been reduced to rubble.” But, according to this call, the resumption of full-scale “genocide by Israel, backed and funded by the United States and other Western powers” has forced them to cancel.
Instead, the Secretariat of Student Frameworks in Gaza calls on “the solidarity movement around the world and all people of conscience to make this an even stronger reason to escalate IAW actions to end complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial regime of genocide and apartheid. Israel would not be able to further entrench apartheid and continue to carry out genocide if it was not for the complicity of states, institutions, and corporations around the world.”
The Secretariat calls on “supporters to Resist. Rise. Decolonize by: Shutting It Down – Disrupt the institutions complicit in Israel’s genocide. Organize strikes (when feasible), walkouts, and sit-ins. No business as usual under genocide. Expanding Apartheid-Free Zones – Demand your university, workplace, union, or city cut ties with apartheid Israel and respect the BDS guidelines. Pressuring Governments for Sanctions – Governments must impose lawful targeted sanctions on Israel, including a comprehensive military embargo. This isn’t a choice but an ethical and legal duty. Ending direct and indirect complicity with Israel is a legal obligation for all states, following the ICJ decisions in 2024.”
The call urges “Organizing Mass Mobilizations around March 21 and beyond – Protest in your city, organize targeted direct actions. Demanding Israel’s immediate suspension from the UN, FIFA, the Olympics, and all international institutions. Amplify Palestinian Voices – Showcase Palestinian culture, resistance, and visions of liberation through film screenings, art exhibitions, teach-ins, and public discussions. Together we can end this complicity and show how people power makes apartheid history.”
The BDS National Committee adds more details, announcing that this year is the 20th anniversary of the BDS movement – “two decades of steadfast popular resistance, intersectional solidarity, and fighting state, corporate and institutional complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime.”
The IAW will start on March 21, through Palestinian Land Day on March 30, and continue into April 2025.
This year’s theme is “People Power Makes Apartheid History.” Another slogan is “Decolonizing Palestine Is Decolonizing the World.”
According to the group, “The struggle against Israeli apartheid is deeply interconnected with broader struggles for justice, freedom, equality and dignity worldwide. Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip has revealed to the world the brutality of settler-colonialism, militarized capitalism, and Western complicity in systemic oppression. From Rabat to Cairo, Jakarta to London, and Cape Town to Bogotá, global solidarity movements have recognized that the fight to free Palestine is also a fight to free themselves from all forms of colonial domination, racism, and imperial violence. As Palestinians, we remain resolute in our struggle, and we take strength from the millions worldwide who have risen up, organized mass demonstrations, disrupted arms shipments, occupied universities and institutions complicit in genocide, forcing many to end ties, and built Apartheid-Free Zones (AFZs) across the globe.”
The organization admits that the Palestinian Arabs’ war against the Jews is more than a century-long. In their words, “The Palestinian struggle, rooted in over a century of resisting settler-colonial oppression.” Adding that their struggle “continues to inspire movements against racial, Indigenous, climate, gender, and economic injustice. Reimagining Palestine After Apartheid: Reimagining life beyond oppression is a revolutionary act. It allows us to sustain hope, renew our determination, and chart a future of justice and liberation. IAW 2025 will amplify Palestinian artistic, literary, and creative visions of a post-apartheid Palestine, drawing connections between our struggle and all movements resisting oppression. If Palestinian resilience and revival have inspired global struggles for justice, our reimagination of a liberated Palestine will further expand the intersections of solidarity worldwide. This IAW, we take collective action towards dismantling Israel’s apartheid regime and nurture the hope that any structure of oppression can be defeated. Together, we are bringing the dawn of Palestinian liberation closer than ever. Resist. Rise. Decolonize. Palestine Frees Us All.”
At the moment, three places have started IAW activities. Ireland, Scotland and South Africa.
In Ireland, the group “Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign” has called for a National Demonstration for Palestine on March 22. This is their first event of IAW 2025. Stating, “We need to let our government know that we are done with excuses – we want meaningful sanctions on genocidal, apartheid Israel, and we want them now! Despite a fragile ceasefire bringing an end to Israel’s genocidal carpet bombing of Gaza, Israel continues to routinely violate the terms of the ceasefire, and has escalated attacks on Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank, with 40,000 forcibly displaces from refugees camps, and widespread attacks on the healthcare system. In the ruins of Gaza, they are still counting the dead, with around 62,000 now feared dead, and children are still dying from cold, malnutrition, and lack of medicine.”
The group adds, “The Trump regime in the US has given Israel it full backing, and has sickeningly pledged to ethnically cleanse and forcibly exile Gaza’s 2 million Indigenous Palestinians and turn the strip into a resort. The genocide continues, just in less overt ways… Western governments have allowed all of this to happen – whether by actively facilitating Apartheid Israel’s brutal onslaught, or by doing absolutely nothing to stop it.”
For this group, “Ireland is a case in point; the new government is already bowing to pressure from the Trump regime and has sidelined the Occupied Territories Bill, and endorsed the viciously anti-Palestinian and free speech curbing IRHA ‘definition’ of antisemitism, opposed by human rights organizations around the world, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. We cannot allow this backsliding – we need to tell the new government that instead of betrayals and cowardice in the face of the US empire’s threats, we want the Occupied Territories Bill, the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill, and the Arms Embargo Bill passed, and end to the use of Irish airports and airspace to transfer weapons, we want Israel kicked out of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, and the breaking diplomatic relations. In short, we STILL want sanctions now – the genocidal, apartheid state of Israel must be punished for it continuing crimes!”
In Scotland, a group of 30 students “occupied” the Charles Wilson Building at the University of Glasgow on March 19, insisting they “will not leave” until the education institution “commits to sever all ties with the arms industry and enforces an academic boycott on Israel and its supporters.” The occupation of the building is part of an ongoing student campaign coordinated by the Glasgow University Justice for Palestine Society (GUJPS), a student activist group. The students stated, “We will not leave this building until the University makes a firm, public commitment to divest from these merchants of death.” In response, the University spokesperson said, “The University of Glasgow upholds the right to freedom of expression, including the right of staff and students to engage in peaceful demonstrations. However, we do not tolerate activities which interfere with the rights of others to go about their business in peace. As an institution, we stand against hate or harassment of any kind.”
Consequently, five of those students announced they had commenced a hunger strike to “increase the pressure on the University of Glasgow.” They are “calling for the university to hold an emergency meeting and vote to cease all investments in arms companies, meaning any company which derives more than 10% of its profits from manufacturing weapons. In addition, they are calling for no disciplinary action for those students involved in the occupation of the Charles Wilson Building, and for the lifting campus ban imposed on Hannah Taylor, who has been barred after daubing water-soluble paint on a building. One of the students said, “We will continue to show our solidarity with the Palestinian people, especially while our university continues to fund genocide and ethnic extermination. Even during the so-called ceasefire agreement, Israel banned aid and food from entering Gaza. “What we are going through is a choice, we have chosen to hunger strike. Whereas the children in Gaza have no choice but to endure their forced starvation.”
In South Africa, Koebra Peters, a spokesperson for Conscious Consumers for Palestine stated that IAW “comes at a critical time, as South Africa faces mounting international pressure—particularly from the U.S., a key ally of Israel known to be fueling the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza.” She emphasized that the campaign’s focus is on “encouraging the boycott of Israeli and Zionist-affiliated brands while promoting safe, ethical alternatives.” She said, “We find that far too many people are still purchasing brands that support the genocide of Palestinians—some unknowingly, which is why we aim to educate our community. Unfortunately, there are also those who continue to do so knowingly,” She stated.“Our goal is to reach the hearts of those willing to make a change because boycotting holds real power. Supporting and empowering local small businesses ensures that we never have to rely on oppressive corporations that seek to harm us.”
Arab violence against the Jews in Palestine has been more than a century-long. IAW and BDS are part of this cycle. Palestinian activist groups have increased their efforts since October 7, 2023. Western countries should stand against this hatred – such aggression targeting Jews and the state of Israel amounts to antisemitism.
REFERENCES:
From Rubble to Resistance: A Global Call from the Secretariat of Student
Frameworks in Gaza to Action for Israeli Apartheid Week 2025
Israel has escalated its genocidal assault against us in Gaza, shattering the fragile ceasefire with carpet bombing, and intensifying mass starvation and ethnic cleansing of our people. We, the Secretariat of Student Frameworks in Gaza, call on people of conscience around the world to make Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2025 starting Friday 21 March, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a pivotal moment in our joint struggle to dismantle the Israeli regime of settler-colonialism, genocide, and apartheid towards Palestinian liberation.
For over a decade, Gaza has been the launch point of IAW, amplifying Palestinian voices from within the largest open-air prison on earth. This year, we cannot launch IAW from Gaza due to Israel’s intensified genocidal bombardment. Our plan was to commence IAW 2025 from the destroyed campus of the Al-Aqsa University, a site that once stood as a symbol of Palestinian resilience, but has now been reduced to rubble. The resumption of full scale genocide by Israel, backed and funded by the United States and other Western powers, has forced us to cancel this launch.
Yet, this must not be a moment of resignation – it must be one of escalation!
We call on the solidarity movement around the world and all people of conscience to make this an even stronger reason to escalate IAW actions to end complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial regime of genocide and apartheid. Israel would not be able to further entrench apartheid and continue to carry out genocide if it was not for the complicity of states, institutions, and corporations around the world.
The Secretariat of Student Frameworks in Gaza calls on supporters to Resist. Rise.
Decolonize by:
Shutting It Down – Disrupt the institutions complicit in Israel’s genocide. Organize strikes (when feasible), walkouts, and sit-ins. No business as usual under genocide.
Expanding Apartheid-Free Zones – Demand your university, workplace, union, or city cut ties with apartheid Israel and respect the BDS guidelines.
Pressuring Governments for Sanctions – Governments must impose lawful targeted sanctions on Israel, including a comprehensive military embargo.
This isn’t a choice but an ethical and legal duty. Ending direct and indirect complicity with Israel is a legal obligation for all states, following the ICJ decisions in 2024.
Organizing Mass Mobilizations around March 21 and beyond – Protest in your city, organize targeted direct actions.
Demanding Israel’s immediate suspension from the UN, FIFA, the Olympics, and all international institutions.
Amplify Palestinian Voices – Showcase Palestinian culture, resistance, and visions of liberation through film screenings, art exhibitions, teach-ins, and public discussions.
Together we can end this complicity and show how people power makes apartheid history.
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ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK (IAW) 2025: PEOPLE POWER MAKES APARTHEID HISTORY
March 21 – 30 and beyond | Resist. Rise. Decolonize.
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This year’s Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) marks a pivotal moment in the struggle for Palestinian liberation and global decolonization. IAW 2025 coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, #BDS@20 – two decades of steadfast popular resistance, intersectional solidarity, and fighting state, corporate and institutional complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime.
IAW will launch on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21st and will include Palestinian Land Day on March 30th going into April 2025. This year’s theme will be “People Power Makes Apartheid History”
Decolonizing Palestine Is Decolonizing the World
The struggle against Israeli apartheid is deeply interconnected with broader struggles for justice, freedom, equality and dignity worldwide. Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip has revealed to the world the brutality of settler-colonialism, militarized capitalism, and Western complicity in systemic oppression. From Rabat to Cairo, Jakarta to London, and Cape Town to Bogotá, global solidarity movements have recognized that the fight to free Palestine is also a fight to free themselves from all forms of colonial domination, racism, and imperial violence.
As Palestinians, we remain resolute in our struggle, and we take strength from the millions worldwide who have risen up, organized mass demonstrations, disrupted arms shipments, occupied universities and institutions complicit in genocide, forcing many to end ties, and built Apartheid-Free Zones (AFZs) across the globe. The Palestinian struggle, rooted in over a century of resisting settler-colonial oppression, continues to inspire movements against racial, Indigenous, climate, gender, and economic injustice.
Reimagining Palestine After Apartheid
Reimagining life beyond oppression is a revolutionary act. It allows us to sustain hope, renew our determination, and chart a future of justice and liberation. IAW 2025 will amplify Palestinian artistic, literary, and creative visions of a post-apartheid Palestine, drawing connections between our struggle and all movements resisting oppression.
If Palestinian resilience and revival have inspired global struggles for justice, our reimagination of a liberated Palestine will further expand the intersections of solidarity worldwide.
This IAW, we take collective action towards dismantling Israel’s apartheid regime and nurture the hope that any structure of oppression can be defeated. Together, we are bringing the dawn of Palestinian liberation closer than ever. Resist. Rise. Decolonize. Palestine Frees Us All.
Register your event by filling out this form.
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Gearoid M. O’Dowd·
5 March at 16:30
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.
The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the Dáil on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government’s doorstep.
This takes place during Anti-Racism Month, and will be the first event of Israeli Apartheid Week 2025 – a global week of action, now in it’s 20th year, and being organised in hundreds of towns and cities across the world under the slogan of ‘People Power Makes Apartheid History ‘..
We need to let our government know that we are done with excuses – we want meaningful sanctions on genocidal, apartheid Israel, and we want them now!
Despite a fragile ceasefire bringing an end to Israel’s genocidal carpet bombing of Gaza, Israel continues to routinely violate the terms of the ceasefire, and has escalated attacks on Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank, with 40,000 forcibly displaces from refugees camps, and widespread attacks on the healthcare system. In the ruins of Gaza, they are still counting the dead, with around 62,000 now feared dead, and children are still dying from cold, malnutrition, and lack of medicine. It is, in the words of the UN, “crisis after crisis after crisis.” The Trump regime in the US has given Israel it full backing, and has sickeningly pledged to ethnically cleanse and forcibly exile Gaza’s 2 million Indigenous Palestinians and turn the strip into a resort. The genocide continues, just in less overt ways…
Western governments have allowed all of this to happen – whether by actively facilitating Apartheid Israel’s brutal onslaught, or by doing absolutely nothing to stop it.
Ireland is a case in point; the new government is already bowing to pressure from the Trump regime and has sidelined the Occupied Territories Bill, and endorsed the viciously anti-Palestinian and free speech curbing IRHA ‘definition’ of antisemitism, opposed by human rights organisations around the world, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch.
We cannot allow this backsliding – we need to tell the new government that instead of betrayals and cowardice in the face of the US empire’s threats, we want the Occupied Territories Bill, the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill, and the Arms Embargo Bill passed, and end to the use of Irish airports and airspace to transfer weapons, we want Israel kicked out of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, and the breaking diplomatic relations.
In short, we STILL want sanctions now – the genocidal, apartheid state of Israel must be punished for it continuing crimes!
Disabled Access Note: Disabled access point is outside the back gate of Trinity, at the intersection of D’Olier Street and College Green.
END ISRAELI APARTHEID & GENOCIDE!
SANCTIONS NOW!
PASS THE OTB, DIVESTMENT BILL, & ARMS EMBARGO BILL!
STOP ARMING ISRAEL!
NO WEAPONS THROUGH IRISH AIRSPACE!
FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE!
Organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Full list of supporting organisations to follow…
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Glasgow Uni students set up pro-Palestine encampment calling for arms industry divestment
Five students are currently on their sixth day of a hunger strike
16 hours ago
University of Glasgow students have set up a pro-Palestine encampment calling for arms industry divestment.
The encampment is on University Avenue and protestors have declared that they will remain there until the uni commits to severing ties with the arms industry.
At 2pm today, hundreds of students gathered outside the university library for a demonstration organised by the Glasgow University Justice for Palestine Society (GUJPS) and Glasgow Against Fossil Fuels and Arms (GAAFF).
The rally expressed support for five students currently on the sixth day of hunger strike. Following the protest, students marched down University Avenue and set up tents on the lawn.
The encampment is the latest action in an ongoing campaign by GUJPS, which calls on the University to divest from arms companies and end research partnerships with them. According to GUJPS, the University has £6.8 million in investments in arms companies.
via GAAF
A Palestinian student participating in the encampment stated: “As students of conscience, we’re here to hold this university accountable and show them that no repressive action they take will deter us from fighting for Palestinian liberation.”
Another student added: “Enough is enough. We will not leave until the University makes a firm, public commitment to divest from [arms] companies.”
The University rector, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, also voiced his support for the students. He has further spoken out about Hannah Taylor, a student who has been banned from attended lectures on campus. She is currently under investigation for spray-painting the JMS.
He said: “On 6th February, Hannah Taylor and another student sprayed Glasgow University with water-soluble paint to protest the University’s refusal to divest from the arms trade – where the institution holds £6.8m worth of shares.
“Since then, Hannah has been banned from campus, denying her access to her lectures, tutorials and possibly her exams.
“This disproportionate and authoritarian response is in keeping with a concerted effort to crack down on student activism for Palestine on campuses around the globe.”
Student demands
The demonstrators have outlined the following demands:
- Divestment from arms: The University Court must vote to end all investments in arms companies.
- End research partnerships: The University should terminate research partnerships with arms companies across its schools, including engineering, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and mathematics.
- Policy changes: Implement a ban on arms companies participating in campus recruitment events and prohibit speakers supporting the state of Israel from events on campus.
- End repressive measures: The University should lift the campus ban on student activist Hannah Taylor and ensure no disciplinary actions are taken against students engaging in peaceful protest.
Recent university actions and responses
Last week, approximately 25 students from GUJPS occupied the Charles Wilson Building, demanding divestment. University officials called the police to campus, leading to blocked entrances and the prevention of food and water reaching protesters. Activists reported threats of arrests during the occupation.
A student involved in the protest said to The Glasgow Tab: “The police have been called onto campus every day for the past three days. This escalation shows the University’s refusal to engage with students on the issue of divestment. The lack of communication with hunger strikers also raises concerns about student welfare.”
The University of Glasgow has yet to release an official statement in response to the latest protest actions and encampment.
A previous comment given by the university to The Glasgow Tab is as follows: “The University of Glasgow upholds the right to freedom of expression, including the right of staff and students to engage in peaceful demonstrations.
“However, we do not tolerate unlawful activities which interfere with the rights of others to go about their business in peace.”
The University of Glasgow was approached for further comment.
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https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/25020128.student-take-glasgow-university-building-amid-protest/Students take over Glasgow University building amid protest
19th March
A group of students have taken over a Glasgow University building amid a protest.
30 students have ‘occupied’ the Charles Wilson Building at the University of Glasgow this morning.
The bunch of pupils are insisting they ‘will not leave’ until the education institution ‘commits to sever all ties with the arms industry and enforces an academic boycott on Israel and its supporters’.
The occupation is part of an ongoing student campaign coordinated by the Glasgow University Justice for Palestine Society (GUJPS), a student activist group.
The society claims the university’s £6.8 million of investments in arms companies such as BAE Systems make it complicit in war crimes, including the genocide in Palestine where Glasgow University alumnus Dima Alhaj and her six-month-old baby were killed.
A Palestinian student occupying the building said: “I’m here today because Western institutions cannot keep profiting off the blood of my people in Palestine with immunity.
“As students of conscience, we’re here to hold this shamelessly complicit university accountable and show them that no repressive action they take will deter us from fighting for Palestinian liberation.”
Another student said: “They invest over £6 million in the murderous arms industry – including over £1million in BAE Systems, who make missile systems for F-35 fighter jets, the same jets Israel used in its genocidal bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza.
“Enough is enough.
“We will not leave this building until the University makes a firm, public commitment to divest from these merchants of death.”
A University spokesperson said: “The University of Glasgow upholds the right to freedom of expression, including the right of staff and students to engage in peaceful demonstrations.
“However, we do not tolerate activities which interfere with the rights of others to go about their business in peace.
“As an institution, we stand against hate or harassment of any kind.
“We regularly communicate with all our staff and students about the need for tolerance towards each other, and we reiterate this call for all members of our community to be respectful to each other at all times.”
On top of the protest, three students at the university announced they were beginning a hunger strike to ‘increase pressure on the university to sever ties with the arms industry and Israel’.
A student taking part in the hunger strike said: “The university has shown that it is happy to be complicit in the death and destruction of thousands of Palestinian lives, so we have decided to bring the implications of their decisions to their doorstep.”
Another student involved in the strike said: “We have tried every single other avenue and now we are left with this extreme form of protest.
“We will continue to show our solidarity with the Palestinian people, especially while our university continues to fund genocide and ethnic extermination.
“Even during the so-called ceasefire agreement, Israel banned aid and food from entering Gaza. What we are going through is a choice, we have chosen to hunger strike.
“Whereas the children in Gaza have no choice but to endure their forced starvation’
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https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25020318.glasgow-university-students-hunger-strike-gaza/Glasgow University students on hunger strike over Gaza
19th March
By Gabriel McKayJournalist
Three students at the University of Glasgow have commenced a hunger strike as they demand the school divest from the arms trade and lift the campus ban imposed on Hannah Taylor.
Students had previously occupied the Charles Wilson Building calling for divestment and an academic boycott of Israel.
According to the Glasgow University Arms Divestment Coalition, the university has more than £6.8m worth of investments in the arms industry, and has also received around £600,000 in research funding from BAE Systems and Rolls Royce since 2017.
On Wednesday, three students announced that they had commenced a hunger strike to increase the pressure on the University of Glasgow.
The students are part of ‘Glasgow University Justice for Palestine Society’ (GUJPS), a student activist group that has been coordinating the divestment campaign.
They are calling for the university to hold an emergency meeting and vote to cease all investments in arms companies, meaning any company which derives more than 10% of its profits from manufacturing weapons.
In addition, they are calling for no disciplinary action for those students involved in the occupation of the Charles Wilson Building, and for the lifting campus ban imposed on Hannah Taylor, who has been barred after daubing water-soluble paint on a building.
A student taking part in the hunger strike said: “The university has shown that it is happy to be complicit in the death and destruction of thousands of Palestinian lives, so we have decided to bring the implications of their decisions to their doorstep’.
Another student involved in the strike said: “We have tried every single other avenue and now we are left with this extreme form of protest.
“We will continue to show our solidarity with the Palestinian people, especially while our university continues to fund genocide and ethnic extermination. Even during the so-called ceasefire agreement, Israel banned aid and food from entering Gaza.
“What we are going through is a choice, we have chosen to hunger strike. Whereas the children in Gaza have no choice but to endure their forced starvation.”
A University spokesperson said: “The University of Glasgow upholds the right to freedom of expression, including the right of staff and students to engage in peaceful demonstrations. However, we do not tolerate unlawful activities which interfere with the rights of others to go about their business in peace.
“As an institution we stand against hate or harassment of any kind. We regularly communicate with all our staff and students about the need for tolerance towards each other, and we reiterate this call for all members of our community to be respectful to each other at all times.”
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Israeli Apartheid Week: “Too many people are still purchasing brands that support the genocide of Palestinians”
- March 25, 2025
By Kouthar Sambo
Used as a grassroots mobilization tool to demonstrate global support for Palestinians, this year’s Israeli Apartheid Week comes at a critical time, as South Africa faces mounting international pressure—particularly from the U.S., a key ally of Israel known to be fueling the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Koebra Peters, a spokesperson for Conscious Consumers for Palestine, emphasized that the campaign’s focus is on encouraging the boycott of Israeli and Zionist-affiliated brands while promoting safe, ethical alternatives.
“We find that far too many people are still purchasing brands that support the genocide of Palestinians—some unknowingly, which is why we aim to educate our community. Unfortunately, there are also those who continue to do so knowingly,” Peters stated.
“Our goal is to reach the hearts of those willing to make a change because boycotting holds real power. Supporting and empowering local small businesses ensures that we never have to rely on oppressive corporations that seek to harm us,” she added.
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