Students at the Liverpool University encampment against genocide have put out an emergency call for support and help after talks with the university broke down following the weekend’s violent arrest of two students, apparently on the pretext that they were drawing a peace sign in chalk on paving stones.
The call, which went out on the encampment’s Instagram account, updates supporters, asks locals who are able to do so to get to the encampment and support them and warns the authorities that they will not abandon their solidarity with the people of Palestine or their demand for the university – which they accuse of acting in bad faith – to end all links with Israel and investment in Israeli companies:
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