University of Edinburgh building occupied by pro-Palestine activists

DOZENS of pro-Palestine activists occupied a University of Edinburgh building on Monday as part of a protest over its “complicity in genocide”.At the time, the group claims that the university currently holds more than £39 million in companies which are complicit in funding Israel, including £30m in BlackRock, £3.6m in Amazon, £2.6m in Booking.com and £2.2m in Albemarle.

Maggie, an undergraduate student at the University of Edinburgh, commented: “We are yet to see any tangible effort made by senior management to engage with the clear and concrete demands of divestment and the severing of research collaborations.“As students, staff and members of the wider community, we are directly implicated in the university’s participation in what the ICJ has ruled a plausible genocide.

A spokesperson for the university said: “The continuing violence and loss of life in Palestine is deeply distressing and we understand the strength of feeling on this issue. "We want to be absolutely clear that we do not hold any investments in Israeli arms and we strongly dispute any allegation that we are complicit in the current conflict. We have had a responsible investment policy in place since 2016, which applies to all of our investments and explicitly excludes investment in controversial armaments.

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