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Outrage over Cambridge student union motion calling for Palestinian 'mass uprising'

University's JSoc calls debate proposal an 'absolute disgrace'

October 23, 2023 18:47
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Hundreds of students gather outside the Students Union of Cambridge University while the Ambassador of Israel, Tzipi Hotovely, gives a talk inside. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 08/02/2022
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Jewish students at Cambridge University are urging their students’ union to cancel a motion which calls for “mass uprising” to “free the Palestinian people”, which is due to be debated this evening.

The motion, titled, “Emergency motion for Solidarity with Palestine”, states that “Only a mass uprising on both sides of the green line and across the Middle East can free the Palestinian people, end the occupation and ensure equal rights for all peoples”.

It refers to the terrorist attacks of October as “the events on October 7”, describing them as “a direct consequence of decades of violent oppression of the Palestinian people by the Israeli state”.

The motion calls on its members to “mobilise and campaign against companies, banks, and institutions that aid the manufacture and delivery of arms to Israel” and “condemn the British government’s support for the Israeli state and the distortions of the mainstream media in Britain in its coverage of this conflict”.