Pro-Palestinian students confront University of Manchester leadership
NewsFeed Pro-Palestinian students confront University of Manchester leadership
Video from the Youth Front for Palestine shows student activists interrupting a meeting of University of Manchester leaders to demand the school sever ties with Israel's Tel Aviv University. The school's leadership defended its decision to maintain ties, saying that doing so is not in support of genocide or Israel.
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