Urgent call for solidarity: Trinity College puts up fence around encampment for Palestine, obtains interim injunction
Cambridge for Palestine reasserts demands for divestment
UPDATE: protesters have now been allowed to retrieve their belongings - thank you to all who supported the call for solidarity. Please continue to call on Trinity to divest from genocide
On 30 May, Cambridge for Palestine established an encampment in front of Trinity College, Cambridge. In a statement posted on Instagram, C4P said:
“The world continues to bear witness to live-streamed genocide and Nakba … through millions in arms investments and research partnerships that collaborate with the Zionist war machine, Cambridge has been proud and brazen in its material complicity in upholding the apartheid and ethnic cleansing that the Israeli state is built on. Trinity College, notorious for its manipulation of divestment conversations with the movement, holds investments in Elbit, Caterpillar, L3Harris Technologies and Barclays … so long as Cambridge University and its constituent colleges remain backers of the zionist project, we will continue to return and disrupt the University’s violent sense of normal. In pursuit of total liberation, we reassert our our urgent demands: disclose, divest, reinvest, protect.” (read the full statement on the C4P instagram account)
After 2 days of peaceful protest calling for the College and University to divest from companies complicit in genocide, Trinity has obtained an interim injunction from the High Court ordering protesters to immediately vacate Newton’s Lawn and remove their possessions. On Monday 2 June, the College began erecting a fence around the encampment and has so far refused to let protesters remove their belongings even though they have left Trinity’s land.
Urgent call for solidarity action from C4P:
Write to Ryan Carter, Head Porter (ryan.carter@trin.cam.ac.uk) and Catherine Barnard, (senior.tutor@trin.cam.ac.uk) urging the college to allow people to remove their belongings and tents from the encampment.
Call on Trinity College to divest from Elbit, Caterpillar, L3Harris Technologies and Barclays and other companies complicit in Israel’s genocide and apartheid.