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Trinity College Dublin Gaza camp welcomes ‘partial victory’

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has met with student protesters and outlined a range of measures which it hopes will end an encampment on its campus.

However, students have said they will continue their protest until all of their demands have been met.

On Friday, dozens of students erected tents, calling on the university to end all business and academic links to Israel due to the war in Gaza.

In a statement on Monday evening, TCD said it was in “solidarity with the students in our horror at what is happening in Gaza”.

The university said it has “initiated a process to divest from investments in companies that have activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and appear on the UN Blacklist”.

Trinity is setting up a task force, including student representatives, it added, to discuss preserving academic freedom “while understanding better how we engage – or not – with states that are in contravention of human rights”.

The university also condemned “the ferocious and disproportionate onslaught in Gaza” and welcomed the International Court of Justice’s interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.


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