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. The group, ANU for Palestine, confirmed they had decamped but would continue their fight against the university’s “complicity in the Palestinian genocide” and its supposed aid of the Israeli “apartheid state.” “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....