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Gaza uni protests used non-students to boost numbers

30 January 2025

11:52 PM

30 January 2025

11:52 PM

Well, well, well. In a new report released by the Higher Education Policy Institute, it has emerged that a number of pro-Gaza university campus protests relied on non-students to help bolster campaign numbers – after widespread demonstrations took place across top university campuses last year.

Both the US and UK saw mass university protests – prompted partly by frustration that student tuition fees were ‘funding genocide’ – beginning after activists took to Columbia University in New York.

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