Ghent students occupy building in climate and Gaza protest

More than 100 students have occupied Belgium’s Ghent University in the first European protest to fuse demands about Gaza and the climate crisis, writes Arthur Neslen for The Guardian.

Ghent’s centrepiece UFO building was peacefully taken over by students calling for concrete action to meet the university’s 2030 climate plans, and asking the university to cut ties with institutions connected to the Israeli military.

Tents were erected inside the building, which contains all of the university’s administrative functions. Its 1,000-seater ‘guillotine wall’ lecture hall was given over to an impromptu workshop on “how we can find hope in a world full of genocide and global warming”.
Full report on The Guardian site