Activists with pro-Palestine banners have been camping on the University of Vienna campus in the Old General Hospital for three days. But now counter-demonstrators are defying them. The police are on site.
There are dozens of people who have been demanding, among other things, “freedom for Palestine” and “justice” for three days. On Wednesday around 12 p.m., the pro-Palestine activists were joined by counter-demonstrators. According to media reports, the counter-demonstrators held Israeli flags in the air. The police have “sufficient forces on site to ensure everything runs smoothly,” as they announced on Twitter on Wednesday. Three days ago, hundreds of activists struck both in Sigmund Freud Park near the Votive Church and on the university campus Vienna (Altes AKH) set up their tents. The demands are similar to those in the USA: research funding to the arms industry should be stopped (“demilitarization of universities”). Numerous protests in the USA Background: For weeks, pro-Palestinian protests have kept numerous universities in the USA and the country’s authorities on tenterhooks . The starting signal was on April 17th, when students at Columbia University in New York began setting up a tent camp on campus. This resulted in a nationwide protest movement. Students are demanding that universities end academic relationships with Israeli institutions and withdraw from investments that are related to Israel or the war in Gaza.
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