Paris' Sciences Po university rejected protesters' demands to review its relations with Israeli universities, its interim director Jean Basseres said on Thursday, prompting some students to say they would go on strike. hunger in protest.
Students at several French universities, including Sciences Po and Sorbonne University, blocked or occupied their institutes during protests against the war in Gaza, although not on the same scale as in the United States.
Dozens of students immediately began a demonstration inside the university to protest Basseres' decision.
“A first student started a hunger strike, in solidarity with the Palestinian victims, but even more so to protest the way Sciences Po is repressing students who want to show their support for Palestine,” said Hicham, a Sciences Po student. Po is one of the pro-Palestinian protesters there.
More students would join the hunger strike, he told journalists, demanding that university leadership agree to its board holding a public vote on reviewing partnerships with Israeli universities.
A meeting with management was one of the conditions imposed last week for Sciences Po students to cancel their protests against the war in Gaza. Many also called on the university to cut all ties with Israel.
The elite political science university would work on how best to organize internal debate on controversial topics, he said, adding that the university already had rules for reviewing its partnerships.
Source: CNN Brasil
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