Support Warwick Occupy! Lobby the university and students' union!

Warwick students have occupied part of their Students' Union building in opposition to insitutional racism, after ex-IDF colonel, Eyal Dror, was invited to speak on campus.

They're demanding the university and student's union launch an investigation into and take action against institutional racism, including looking into the events that led to Eyal Dror speaking on campus. This includes the university divesting from and severing links with companies complicit in Israeli apartheid.

Find their demands to the university, and students' union, linked.

More information on their page here

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As a concerned member of the public, I write in regards to the Warwick Occupy students, who have been occupying part of the Students' Union building for over 20 days, in opposition to institutional racism. Having read their demands to both the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14F24Ac9zz6Z-jGuD6q_Z2qEM6FL_zPjPw9MftoTPyK4/edit">university</a>, and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QTRGjMypZ5_rBQDUmkLsE2RIcFe1xuB1fT3Z-IX3g2s/edit">students' union</a>, I wish to express my full support with them.
The students are rightly appalled that Colonel Eyal Dror, a former member of the Israeli Defence Force, was invited to speak on campus. The IDF oversees and enforces the brutal and illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and has committed war crimes against the Palestinian civilian population in besieged Gaza. An investigation into events surrounding the invitation, and the subsequent treatment of student protesters during his talk, must be launched immediately by the Students Union.
Further, the university must follow the occupiers demands and sign Palestine Solidarity Campaign's <a href="https://www.palestinecampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/AFZ-pledge.docx-FINAL.pdf">pledge</a> to divest from companies complicit with Israeli apartheid. Student's fees should not be used to be grave human rights abuses.
Investments in, and links with, companies complicit in Israeli apartheid,  is one part of UK universities continuing colonial legacy, which effects the curriculum, the way students are treated, and university governing policies. I therefore support a full investigation into colonial legacies on campus.
These students are part of a broader movement standing up against racism, including Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people which amounts to the crime of apartheid under international law. I stand in full solidarity with them, and urge the university to comply with their demands immediately.

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