Students at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have established a Gaza solidarity encampment on their campus to demand the iconic Irish university cut ties with Israel, Al Jazeera reports.
“Trinity College Dublin tonight, after students set up an encampment for Palestine, demanding that their university cut ties with Israel as per BDS principles supported by the vast majority of students and staff,” the college’s student union president Laszlo Molnarfi said in a post on social media.
Video footage of the encampment shows tents pitched on a grass lawn near a library where the Book of Kells — a 9th-century manuscript and one of the country’s most visited tourist attractions — is housed. The protesters also placed wooden benches in the doorway entrance of the library, saying the location was “now closed indefinitely”.
“No business as usual during a genocide,” Molnarfi wrote on social media, and called on the university’s administration to “cut ties with the genocidal state of Israel”.
