“We will never be neutral”: students from the University of Chile request to cut off relations with Israeli institutions

On this Wednesday, May 15, the students of the University of Chile They held a demonstration at the Central House of the higher education institution, calling on their authorities to break relations with Israeli institutions.

“We call for a day of protesta flag on the front of the Headquarters, because today the University of Chile maintains three active agreements with Israeli universities, which make our construction of knowledge is stained with blood“, stated the president of the Student Federation, Catalina Lufin.

Along these lines, the leader pointed out that “It is not acceptable that a university that calls itself publicwhich claims to be the protector and guarantor of Human Rights (HR). have active agreements with illegitimate states, as is the State of Israel. So we demand that the faculty tear them up immediately.”

“This true massacre has generated wide and deep rejection throughout the planet.generating displays of active and internationalist solidarity mainly from the student movement, which in countries such as the US, France, Holland, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland has set up camps against genocide,” he added.

As a result of this situation, the protesters They unfurled the Palestinian flag in the emblematic headquarters of the study house in Alameda and they installed tents in the patio of the building along with posters with messages such as: “We will never be neutral before genocide. Palestine resists”.

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