Students at Trinity College Dublin end Gaza protest after Irish school agrees to divest from Israeli firms

Edited by Ed Newman
2024-05-09 07:52:27

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Dublin, May 9 (RHC)--Students at Trinity College in the Irish capital have ended their protest and will dismantle their Gaza solidarity encampment after their demands to divest from Israel were met by the university’s leadership.

In a statement posted on its website, Trinity College Dublin said that “an agreement was reached” after “successful talks between the university’s senior management and the protestors.”

Laszlo Molnarfi, president of the university’s student union and organizer of the protests, said the university’s statement was a “testament to grassroots student-staff power.”  “There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen.  5 days is all it took for @tcddublin to commit to fully divesting from Israel,” he said on social media.

The university said that it “will complete a divestment from investments in Israeli companies that have activities in the occupied Palestinian Territory and appear on the UN blacklist in this regard.”



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