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NTEU: A Night in the ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment

Earlier this week, the ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment participants invited me, as an NTEU representative, to spend a night in the encampment. I was honoured to accept, and last night endured Canberra’s chilly overnight temperatures to stand (and sleep) in solidarity with university students and their rights to peacefully protest, and to exercise their academic freedom and freedom of speech.

Dr Lachlan Clohesy

‘Fringe Jew’: Reclaiming Identity in the Fight for Solidarity

Like most crucial moments in my life, I don’t notice them until after they’ve passed. It was May 8th 2024, and it was the ANUSA AGM (ANU’s Student Union annual general meeting).

Anna Denishensky

From the Verge

Genocide in Gaza is the moral and political issue of our day, from which the leaders of many governments and other institutions around the world have abdicated moral and political responsibility.

Nick Cheesman

Tamara Jacka

Dr Elise Klein

Prof. Sango Mahanty

Profits Over People: What the ANU Encampment Revealed About Institutional Conscience

The ANU GAZA Solidarity Encampment represented one of the strongest grassroots movements on the university campus. It called for recognition from our national university demanding that its practice align with the ethics it teaches.

Muhammad Ali

A Zionist Safe Space on Campus

While watching the first of many Senate estimates that the Australian National University was called to, many students learned that university management had established a Safe Space for Jewish students on campus. As a Jewish student on campus, I was shocked because I was not aware of the safe space and I did not have access to it.

Anna Denishensky

Creating Statements, Spaces and Community: Experiences of Art at the ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment

No work reflecting the Australian National University (ANU) Gaza Solidarity Encampment would be complete without stating first and foremost our unequivocal support for Palestinian liberation.

Pip Grimshaw

Mio

What did the Encampment achieve?

When I first read بطاقـــــــــــــــة هويـــــــــــــــة (Identity Card), a poem by Mahmoud Darwish, I immediately connected to what Darwish signified and evoked through this poem; what living under a militarised occupation means

Asaf Ali Lone

The Gaza Solidarity Encampment: A Brief Summary

On the 29th of April 2024, a series of color-clashing, rag-tag and misfitted tents popped up on ANU’s Kambri Green; a small field of grass located in the university’s central hub. I was among them. There was no permit secured and no long-term plan.

Evan Meneses