At the ETHZ, the demonstration started around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday.züri today
After Columbia, Sciences Po and the University of Lausanne, it is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the University of Geneva which are blocked by pro-Palestinian activists.
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Los Angeles, Paris, Lausanne and now Zurich and Geneva. In the town of Calvin, the “Palestine Student Coordination” announced an occupation of the university from Tuesday Tuesday. She is supported in her approach by the University Conference of Student Associations (CUAE). At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, students also block a building to protest in favor of the Palestinians and Gaza.
In Geneva, solidarity with Lausanne
Here is the information coming to us from Geneva:
“This Tuesday, May 7, the Palestine Student Coordination – University of Geneva (CEP-UniGe) occupies the UniMail hall and submits a letter to the rectorate to request a clear position on the genocide perpetrated in Gaza and on the need for a immediate ceasefire as well as an immediate end to links between the University of Geneva and Israeli universities”
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The students say they stand in solidarity with their Lausanne comrades, whether at the university or at the EPFL, in particular “with the Poliquity association which was suspended by the EFPL for daring to speak about Palestine, with coughs for those who have mobilized (sic) in recent weeks in American, French and international universities.
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They also indicate that an assembly will take place at 4 p.m. and that journalists will be invited to a press conference on Wednesday at 11 a.m. A list of demands has been published. Among them, in particular:
- A complete list of any collaboration between the University of Geneva and Israeli academic institutions
- The suspension of all these collaborations
- A “clear position on the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza”
Songs for Gaza in Zurich
In Zurich, students left their classes around 11:30 a.m. to organize a sit-in, online media Züri Today tells us. They can be seen in particular sitting in a hall with a banner “No tech for genocide” (No technology for genocide).
According to 20 minutesdemonstrators chanted “free Palestine” (free Palestine) or even “we are all children of Gaza”. They accused the European Union and Switzerland of “financing Israel’s war.”
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