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Protests for peace in Palestine? Higher Education asks for respect for students
Teachers, researchers, and administrative personnel in Higher Education joined together in a petition addressed to management boards of Portuguese universities and polytechnic institutes to request respect for the students' right to demonstrate, without resorting to violence.
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"We believe it is our duty, as academics and Higher Education workers, not to react to the demonstrations with coercion, to protect our students in the university context and space, and not to put them at risk of being targeted by police violence", reads the open letter that today at 10 am had about 80 signatures.
"We, teachers, researchers and administrative staff of Higher Education, want to express solidarity with the students who took the initiative to peacefully occupy buildings and other academic facilities, such as the one that is currently taking place at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova.
In recent days, several universities across the country have had spaces occupied by students in protests for peace in Palestine and against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, similar to what is happening in other international universities.
The promoters of the petition praise the decision of the management of Universidade Nova to "meet and dialogue with the students and not to call the police on this occasion".
"We appeal for this position to be maintained and we ask all Higher Education managements to do the same" in similar cases, they defend.
For the signatories, "it is not possible to simultaneously celebrate the student movements that occurred in 1962 and resort to forms of repression and violence in the face of actions that are much further from disrupting the 'normal functioning of institutions' than the student protests that culminated in the praised 'academic crisis'".
Higher Education institutions should "play a relevant role in increasing civic participation and commitment".
Therefore, "the efforts of the bodies that constitute it to respond to the climate emergency or to prevent attacks on Human Rights, embodied in military occupation, in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, in the obstruction of humanitarian aid and in the indiscriminate destruction of homes and crucial infrastructures, should be welcomed, debated and listened to, and not targeted by persecution or repression", conclude the authors.
The petition can be signed here.
The ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip was triggered by the attack by the Islamist group Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, which caused about 1,200 deaths and two hundred hostages, according to Israeli authorities.
Since then, Israel has launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip that has already caused more than 35,000 deaths, according to Hamas.
Read Also: Faculty in Porto closes building occupied by pro-Palestine students (Portuguese version)
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