Pro-Palestinian Encampment Disbands After Near 4 Month Protest at ANU

Pro-Palestine activists at the Australian National University (ANU) have finally removed their lengthy 110-day encampment.
The protest was the longest-running across Australian campuses and received support from Greens Senators Mehreen Faruqi and David Shoebridge.
“For 110 days, the ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment has been a physical presence, reminding the ANU that its staff and students want full divestment from the so-called state of Israel. This makes us the longest ongoing Gaza Solidarity Encampment in so-called Australia,” the group wrote in a statement.
While the statement did not mention Israel specifically, the pro-Palestinian activists claimed credit for the policy change, but said it was not enough.
“Our movement has always called for full and immediate divestment from the state of Israel as well as the military-industrial complex which enables its ongoing occupation and genocide of the Palestinian people. This is what we will continue to do,” the students said.
The encampment was part of a wider movement across the Western world following the surprise Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, which killed 1,200 people and captured 250 hostages.
More than 40,000 people have reportedly been killed in Gaza since Israeli military reprisals.
He said it was “not that radical” to ask universities to divest from weapons companies.
The AJA said it received complaints from Jewish students about alleged verbal abuse, bullying, and the use of the Nazi salute back in May.
The Liberal senator recounted that one student told her the stickers “seem to be everywhere.”
In response, ANU Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell said, “Senator, those are stickers that we would attempt to take down because we would see them as being hateful.”