Join the student and staff teach-in on Monday 17th March, 3:30pm at University Place, Room 6.212.
Come to the public event to learn about the University of Manchester’s complicity in ethnic cleansing and colonialism, and about its partner, Tel Aviv University’s, involvement in genocide.
After over 17 months of continued campaigning and actions by students and staff in UoM, the university’s management is still refusing to do what is right: cut ties with Israeli institutions built at the expense of the Palestinian people and land, which are providing the infrastructure for Israeli war crimes.
Not only does the University’s management ignore Palestinian suffering, after 15 months of genocide on top over nearly 77 years of ethnic cleansing, but also the mounting evidence of Tel Aviv University’s involvement in genocide, occupation and oppression. We are constantly being presented with the same old mantra of “academic neutrality” and “academic freedom”, while there is nothing neutral about normalising Israeli colonialism.
This complicity on part of UoM is part of the institution’s long-lasting legacy of enhancing colonialism and imperialism. Whenever it made any right decision, like cutting ties with apartheid South Africa, it was because students and staff forced it into making those decision. And this is what we aim to do for the sake of the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
Join to hear about UoM’s complicity in colonialism, and TAU’s role in genocide and war crimes, based on research conducted by students and staff, and about our boycott campaign.
