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Pro-Palestinian Student Activists Occupy Trinity College Dublin

Anti-Israeli scholar activists have staged an encampment on the grounds of Trinity College Dublin in protest in opposition to the battle in Gaza, forcing the college to limit entry to the campus.

Following the lead of leftist activists within the United States and France, members of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) and the Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (TCD BDS) group started to blockade areas of Ireland’s high college on Friday night, the Irish Examiner reports.

The scholar activists erected tents on the campus grounds and blocking the doorway to the Old Library, which accommodates the Celtic illuminated manuscript of the Book of Kells, one among Irelands high vacationer points of interest.

Sharing a picture of benches stacked up in entrance of the doorway to the Old Library, Students’ union President Laszlo Molnarfia stated: “The Book of Kells is now closed indefinitely.”

“Our fight for Palestinian liberation and to make our university adopt the principles of boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) has seen us blockade and take disruptive action which is now being criminalised, essentially,” he added.

The Book of Kells is now closed indefinetly. No enterprise as regular throughout a genocide. @tcddublin lower ties with the genocidal state of Israel! pic.twitter.com/LZ31xcvtYt

— László Molnárfi (SU) (@TCDSU_President) May 3, 2024

The encampment was arrange after the Trinity College’s college students’ union claimed that it had been fined 214,000 euros ($230,000) by the college to pay for the prices of protests in current months, together with however not completely for pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

As has been seen in protests within the United States, the scholar activists at Trinity College have additionally demanded that the college finish ties with universities in Israel and to utterly “divest” from firms with ties to the Jewish state.

Trinity College stated that whereas it helps the best of scholars to protest, they should be carried out inside the college.

Students at Trinity College Dublin have arrange an encampment for Palestine, demanding that their college lower ties with Israel as per BDS rules supported by the overwhelming majority of scholars and employees.
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @TrinityBDS @tcdsu @tcddublin pic.twitter.com/dZFQ8E6eTL

— László Molnárfi (SU) (@TCDSU_President) May 3, 2024

A spokesman confirmed that the college could be proscribing entry to the campus on Saturday to solely these with a school ID to make sure the protection of scholars and teachers. Trinity additionally stated that it will hold the Book of Kells exhibit closed.

“The closure of the Old Library impacts on researchers, whether they are students, staff or visiting international researchers,” the spokesman. “It also impacts on the staff working there, many of whom are students themselves.”