About a hundred pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the entrance of the Géopolis building at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) this afternoon and are demanding an academic boycott of Israeli institutions and an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, the Keystone-ATS news agency reports.
This action “follows the example of the mobilizations in the universities of Canada, the USA or even France” explain the organizers in their statement.
Palestinian flags were even placed on the floor, while others hung them high. The occupation continues peacefully, an agency reporter said.
“Our action is spontaneous, it has neither a leader nor a leader. The people who occupied the university building refuse to be complicit in the colonial genocide perpetrated by Israel’s apartheid regime. We invite the whole world to join us and members of other universities and colleges to mobilize as well,” the participants write in their statement.
UNIL chancellor Frederik Herrmann went to the scene to talk with the protesters, the agency added.
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