SOAS Gaza encampment issued with eviction notice 24hrs before court hearing

The University of London served SOAS Palestine solidarity encampment with accelerated proceedings for eviction on Tuesday, less than a day before a court hearing was due to be held.

The move comes months after students set up tents on campus calling for the administration to divest from companies that are complicit in genocide, cut ties with academic institutions  that support Israel, terminate its banking relationship with Barclays and stop its targeted repression of Palestine solidarity activists on campus.

The university administration served the students “over 200 pages worth of legal documents with less than a day to respond,” one of the students said.

The SOAS Liberated Zone has said it will not fight the eviction order as money spent on legal fees would serve Palestinians in Gaza better.

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“Shamefully, University of London and the ‘School of Oriental and African Studies’ have once again proved themselves to be on the side of genocide and colonialism, as they seek to evict our encampment and shut down protest in support of Palestine,” Abel Harvie-Clark, who was dismissed from his democratically elected role as Democracy and Education Officer at the student union and expelled from the university months before he was due to graduate, said, according to the Canary.

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