A network of students and staff in the University of Edinburgh whose goal is focused on the University's divestment from Israeli apartheid and ongoing genocide.
Joined May 2024
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17 Jul 2024
🎓As graduations come to a close, we remember the millions of futures that have been stolen.
But we also celebrate and salute this generation that have been steadfast in their courage, morals and determination to use their platform (no matter how small) to lift the voices of the oppressed and the occupied. 1/3
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5 Jul 2024
Student voices DEMAND to be heard by saying no to genocide and holding the University of Edinburgh accountable for its complicity in ongoing genocides. How long is the @EdinburghUni going to keep disengaging under the pretence of engagement?
5 Jul 2024
The math adds up. The will of the students is clear. No graduating from genocide. @EdinburghUni, your turn.
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ssassemblyedi retweeted
📍New York, NY
🚨 BREAKING! A group of autonomous New School community members consisting of students, staff, and faculty have de-occupied the 301 Residence Hall! 🚨
The community has spoken and will continue to act until divestment is achieved!
‼️ All out to the 301 Residence Hall, located at 301 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003 ‼️
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ssassemblyedi retweeted
26 Jun 2024
COME SEPTEMBER. ALL THE STUDENTS WILL REMEMBER.
As demonstrated by todays rally, and our march to Old College, we remind the Edinburgh 7 - Peter Mathieson, Colm Harmon, Lee Hamil, Leigh Chalmers, Lucy Evans, Kim Graham and Catherine Martin- that we the students will remember their cowardly refusal to concede to our demands.
We mark the days leading up to September as the moments when the student intifada galvanised and escalated to the halls of this colonial institution. #BalfourUniversity
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ssassemblyedi retweeted
24 Jun 2024
‼️ EMERGENCY CALL‼️
PM Rishi Sunak is launching the Scottish Conservative manifesto at the Apex Hotel in Edinburgh's Grassmarket NOW. We need people to head there ASAP with Palestine flags to challenge his support for genocide!
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22 Jun 2024
Please read this very important tweet and information attached. These initiatives / endeavors pander to performative machinations. None of these should be '# a week', an EDI strategy, 'a metaphor' as Tuck and Yang refer to decolonisation or a tickbox.
22 Jun 2024
It's World Refugee Week- a time to amplify refugee voices and examine our individual and community practices to ensure that we are doing what we can to support displaced people (although this should be a consistent focus not just a week!).
❗️However, the University of Edinburgh is using this as a token marketing strategy- plastering their social media with claims of refugee support whilst continuing to refuse to divest from their £57 million held in investments complicit in genocide (and deleting Instagram comments exposing them for this hypocrisy).
❗️Around 75% of Gaza's population have been displaced
(UN, April 2024) and Israel continues to bomb refugee camps. Over 37,000 people have been killed in Palestine since October 2023.
❗️This university does not care about their ethical or humanitarian responsibilities, they only care about profit.
- Via GeographersAgainstGenocide on Instagram
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ssassemblyedi retweeted
22 Jun 2024
‼️ The Student Intifada continues. Fuck the court ‘decision’. Show up for divestment. Show up against the legacy of Balfour. Show up for Palestine.
ALT STUDENT INTIFADA RALLY At Bristo Square On Wednesday, June 26th at 2:30pm
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17 Jun 2024
Do turn up! We are at an extremely critical juncture here and your voice is everything.
16 Jun 2024
Edinburgh
Monday 17th June 11am
'This will be the most important rally of the past student year. The 9 months of our escalations and efforts towards divestment have culminated in the definitive vote taking place tomorrow at the University court.'
'WE NEED NUMBERS!'
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17 Jun 2024
📍 Spot for the rally at 11am today. Come down for the final push towards divestment. Bring all your friends!!!
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ssassemblyedi retweeted
14 Jun 2024
University of Edinburgh students have blocked all entrances to Old College, which houses part of the university administration, asking for the university court to respect the democratic will of student council and academic senate and divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza
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14 Jun 2024
Let's keep the pressure on! Well done comrades!
14 Jun 2024
‼️Today’s picket of Old College has successfully made the administration concede to our demands!
1. To add the appendix on Amazon and Alphabet that was purposefully omitted by the working group when sent to the court back.
2. To allow our experts who were sabotaged in the process to reconstruct their marginalization by the committee process at court on Monday.
This is huge progress, but we must mantain the pressure to ensure divestment takes place.
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13 Jun 2024
‼️ URGENT ACTION NEEDED ‼️ We need staff signatures to show this is unacceptable and we won't stand for it. Please sign and share widely!
13 Jun 2024
‼️ACTION REQUIRED‼️
Open letter to urge the university court to consider the expertise presented by staff regarding responsible investments - as of now, that is mostly being ignored.
Sign and share before 1pm tomorrow!
forms.gle/FsUPbLeMpdN4iikT7
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11 Jun 2024
📢Please read this very important series of developments at @EdinburghUni 📢
11 Jun 2024
‼️UPDATE FROM EDINBURGH UNI ENCAMPMENT ON COMMUNICATIONS WITH MANAGEMENT AND PROGRESS TOWARDS DIVESTMENT, 11/06
READ: cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view…
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11 Jun 2024
Absolutely no accountability by @EdinburghUni for this repugnant, dehumanising behaviour. Apparently no one knows what's happened. All of this is continued violence. @EdinburghAlumni @EdAlumNY please take note. Pls demand an explanation, accountability and transparency.#Divestnow
9 Jun 2024
#BalfourUniversity strikes again: The memorial set up to commemorate the thousands killed in Gaza has been taken down and binned publicly.
Clearly, this institution holds nothing sacred. It is one of the most disrespectful acts of violence that @EdinburghUni has done (which is quite the achievement, considering their record!)
The stances taken by this colonial institution are clear: Palestinian lives don't matter to them. They are free to dehumanize and disrespect them even in their deaths, so long as they aren’t held accountable.
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ssassemblyedi retweeted
11 Jun 2024
The @EdinburghUni administration has yet to provide a response to the shameful takedown of the martyrs vigil, and campus security claim no responsibility. Perhaps the ghost of Balfour is to blame?
Regardless, The Martyrs Vigil is back up. Visit Old College steps to pay respects to the thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel. May their memory be a blessing, and a knife in the sides of the oppressors.
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7 Jun 2024
Join in today and drop in for some community healing.
6 Jun 2024
💐 Community event tomorrow! Join us for Juma’a prayer for those practicing, and bring friends and family for an evening potluck, poetry reading, music, and company. Check full schedule below!
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3 Jun 2024
Join us tomorrow at 11 am.
3 Jun 2024
Join us for a teach in with Roibeard Mac an Bheatha tomorrow at 11am 🇮🇪🇵🇸
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ssassemblyedi retweeted
3 Jun 2024
❗️2pm, Old College encampment, this Wednesday. University students, faculty, and wider community all welcomed and encouraged to join us. Bring signs!
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ssassemblyedi retweeted
3 Jun 2024
The martyrs in Gaza deserve to be honored and remembered. We have set up a memorial at the Old College next to the war memorial. Please come by during the day if you wish to show respect; a prayer, flowers, candles, or a somber moment of remembrance. We encourage you to contribute with more photos. Glory to the martyrs 🕯️
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ssassemblyedi retweeted
Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world: We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities
"We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again."
aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/…
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