   
UCL Union votes overwhelmingly to twin with Palestinian Universities in the West Bank and Gaza
University College Union - UCL, Press Release, 6 March 2008
On Thursday 5th March, The University College London Students' Union (UCLU) voted overwhelmingly to twin UCL Union with the Unions of Al-Quds and Al-Azhar Secular Universities in the West Bank and Gaza respectively with immediate effect. 
LSE Student Union Demands Divestment from Israel
London School of Economics, Students' Union, 14 February 2008
On 14th February, the London School of Economics Students' Union (LSESU) voted overwhelmingly to call on its university and the National Union of Students (NUS) to divest from companies that provide military and commercial support for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, condemning the decades of human rights abuses and systematic oppression that has occurred as a result.
Manchester Students reaffirm commitment to Right to Education in Palestine
An Olive Tree for Solidarity, Action Palestine, 17 November 2007
On Wednesday 14th November, 2007, Manchester Student's Union held it's General Meeting with attendance of over 1000 students and strengthened their commitment to the Palestinian's Right to Education and their twinning with An-Najah University with almost a two-thirds majority.
LSE Students Occupy Board Meeting
James Caspell , Indymedia UK, 30 October 2007
On Tuesday evening, over 20 LSE students silently occupied a meeting of LSE's governing body for over 30 minutes in protest at LSE Director Howard Davies' implicit support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine. They held banners in support of Palestinian Academic Freedom, the Palestinian right to education.
R2E Student Committee welcomes UNISON boycott
Right to Education Student Committee, Right to Education Campaign, 21 June 2007
The Right to Education (R2E) Student Committee in Birzeit University welcomes the motion passed by UNISON (text below) and calls for student-wide mobilisation on boycotting Israel as a means to defend the Palestinian right to education and end the occupation.
Manchester University Twins with An-Najah
Action Palestine, Press Release, 8 March 2007
The Action Palestine Society, The Islamic Society, and other supporters at Manchester University passed a motion at their Student Union, calling to twin Manchester University Student Union with An-najah University in Nablus, Occupied Palestine.
Students from Bethlehem and Al Quds universities protest excavations in Jerusalem
Najib Farag, Palestine News Network, 6 February 2007
Several student blocs from Bethlehem University and Al Quds University protested the Israeli destruction of Al Aqsa Mosque's Moroccan Gate. The students took to the streets of Bethlehem and shouted against the continued threat to Muslim holy sites and the process Jerusalem of its Muslim heritage. Some of the sites targeted in the day's destruction date back to 661 through 750.
UK Exhibition tour: photographs by Palestinian university students
Friends of Birzeit University, London, 30 January 2007
In 2005, student photographers from Birzeit University and Al-Najah University in the West Bank came together to document student life and the obstruction of Palestinian education under military occupation, through the artistic expression of their own ideas and experiences. Their photographs have now become an exhibition and a book, launched at Birzeit University in 2006 and currently touring Palestine and the US. Friends of Birzeit University and Foyles will host the first UK view of the exhibition at Foyles' landmark Charing Cross bookshop.
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