Edinburgh University responds as students stage walk out over Israel | The National (2025-07-15)
Edinburgh University responds as students stage walk out over Israel | The National (2025-07-15)
Edinburgh University responds as students stage walk out over Israel | The National (2025-07-15)
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25310336.edinburgh-university-responds-students-stage-walk-israel/
———Video shared on Instagram showed Thursday’s events – which were for graduates of the university’s School of Social and Political Science…
Graduates waved flags with slogans such as “No universities in Gaza”, “Jews say divest”, and “Fund teaching not genocide” as they took to the stage.
A large group of students were seen to rise, chanting, before walking out of the ceremony.
The Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society posted other clips and reported that further protests had happened during ceremonies for biomedical sciences, engineering, chemistry, physics, and English.
It came after a report by #FrancescaAlbanese, … named the University of Edinburgh as one of “the most financially entangled” institutions in the UK to Israel.