Unimelb for Palestine Profile
Unimelb for Palestine

@Umelb4Palestine

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A grassroots coalition of UniMelb students, staff and alumni for Palestine

Joined November 2023
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
Students at the University of Melbourne have been continually silenced. Despite national cultural symbols being accepted this student was kicked out of his own graduation simply for displaying a Palestinian flag. #NoBloodOnOurDegrees #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
7 days
Still going strong despite university threats 💪🏽💪🏽
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
6 days
The students are always on our side sending a clear message to the uni. In 20 years the uni will tokenize this movement as ‘proud history of student activism’ and not mention that they are going to send police in to brutalize students. @UniMelb we will never forget.
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
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Arts West no more - this is now Mahmoud’s Hall in remembrance of Mahmoud Al Nouq, a prospective unimelb student who was murdered in Gaza. He should’ve been with us here today.
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
BREAKING 🔻🔻 Melbourne University students walk out of the University annual Iftar and refuse to break their fasts with university officials as a protest to Melbourne University’s ongoing complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
10 days
OUR CAMP IS UNDER ATTACK. People with glass bottles, bats and fire extinguishers have attempted to breach the camp boundaries. we’re calling on the community to come with numbers to defend the camp and stay the night. We have tents available. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
7 days
The university has come down and THREATENED students with consequences if they don’t leave SHAME @UniMelb
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
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1. We are the students 2. We won’t be silenced 3. Cut your ties. Now. Now. Now
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
7 days
Sit in and barricading students. The students united will never be defeated ✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
19 days
We have taken over arts west, no business as usual during a genocide. NO BUSINESS AS USUAL WHEN @UniMelb MAINTAINS WEAPONS TIES No more blood money. ✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
7 days
Mahmoud’s hall is ours for the night. From @ColumbiaSJP to Unimelb, and Hind’s to Mahmoud’s Hall, students stand together in a global fight for justice against university complicity in genocide. We shall not be moved. For a Free Palestine. @NationalSJP
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 days
For the children for Mahmoud , we will not be moved ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
7 days
Your brother is in all our hearts everyday at our encampment, we will not stop fighting. ✊🏽
@AlnaouqA
Ahmed Alnaouq
7 days
This made me cry but also made my day! Students at Melbourne University have renamed Arts West to Mahmoud's Hall in honor of my brother Mahmoud who was killed with 20 members of our family at the hands of the terrorist Israeli army.
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Unimelb for Palestine
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PRESS CONFERENCE POST NEGOTIATIONS WITH UNI Full video is on the Instagram, the university is more than happy to support Australian and American military and flat out told students and the community NO to ANY divestment not even 1 private company
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
🚨BREAKING: Vice Chancellor (CEO) of Melbourne University gets confronted at all-staff meeting about deals with weapons partnerships and israeli universities. Staff members at the University of Melbourne do not want to be complicit in genocide. End all weapons partnerships now!
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 days
An amazing speech from a student at the sit in, we peacefully protest and the university wants to cry out cancel classes and pretend to be victims then call the police. Sounds about white
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Colombia first, unimelb next , all universities must divest. We will win. No more weapons on campus, no more blood on our degrees.🔥🔥🔥 @ColumbiaSJP @NationalSJP
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Indigenous solidarity panel on day 7 of the encampment 🫶🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 days
Class is #cancelled , end weapons on campus now.
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Unimelb for Palestine
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We will not stop, we will not rest, we demand a free Palestine in our lifetimes✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 months
BREAKING: Duncan Maskell refuses to sit down and meet with a Palestinian student on campus. Duncan also denies the existence of the University's 13 million-dollar partnership with Lockheed Martin. Is this what consultation with students looks like at @unimelb ? #FreePalestine
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Unimelb for Palestine
20 days
Zio THUGS trying to intimidate people at our encampment but we’re standing strong and holding our ground, we won’t be provoked 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
7 days
Occupying arts west now , no business as usual when our university trades in blood money @UniMelb
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Unimelb for Palestine
23 days
A list of the known academics murdered in Gaza. When will @unimelb break its silence, when will the university stop turning a blind eye and funding the genocide of their fellow academics
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Unimelb for Palestine
25 days
Day three and the sun is out ☀️come through for a chat or to have some fun in the sun
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Unimelb for Palestine
19 days
Rally starting now!
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 days
URGENT 🚨🚨 Michael Wesley speaks on behalf on the University, calling student action intimidating, disruptive and disrespectful while intimidating students.
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Unimelb for Palestine
26 days
Day 2 and the dabke is strong 🫶🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
20 days
Huge turnout for @jordana_s_ and our member Zarah! Thank you for coming down
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
***BREAKING NEWS*** @UniMelb is censoring graduates showing solidarity with Palestine. Graduates who have worn keffiyehs have not been able to access complementary ceremony stage photos. Email the VC & let him know that censoring solidarity is unacceptable: vc @unimelb .edu.au
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Unimelb for Palestine
19 days
Some photos from our takeover of arts west, HUNDREDS of people showed up ✊🏽
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Jacob
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Students and workers have occupied the Arts West building at @UniMelb #FreePalestine
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Unimelb for Palestine
20 days
Mahmoud was an Australia awards scholar who was supposed to start studying with us at unimelb this year, unfortunately he was murdered by Isnotreal. Not a word from @UniMelb , instead they continue to have relationships with the weapons companies that caused his death.
@DanaInMelbourne
Dana 🇵🇸🇵🇸
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We have launched Mahmoud Alnaouq library at our #gaza solidarity #Encampment here at melbourne university in honor of Mahmoud Alnaouq and every Palestinian student who’ve been killed by the Israeli Zionist regime! Long live a free #palestine 🇵🇸✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 days
RALLY STARTING NOW - come through to Mahmoud’s hall✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Day 2 encampment is going strong !
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
Munzer’s comment
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Rally happening NOW! No rest for a university that lies, gaslights and refuses to stop accepting blood money
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Unimelb for Palestine
19 days
Clementine ford - our first speaker at our encampment ✊🏽 massive turnout already
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
The university maintains multiple weapons manufacturer ties, and utter silence about the slaughter of innocent Palestinians by the Zionist regime “We cannot and we will not sit here in good conscious and break our fasts” ✊🏽🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 #nobloodonourdegrees
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Nakba day rally at the encampment🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Unimelb for Palestine
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The amazing @jordana_s_ our second speaker for the night, a unimelb alumni and an academic @UniMelb !!!
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
Blood money is blood money is blood money ! there’s no ethical justification for blood money ! Use our templates to call and email Vice-Chancellor Duncan Maskell! #NoBloodOnOurDegrees #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine #🍉🍉🍉
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
🚨MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY IS COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE. 🚨On March 26, Melbourne University students and staff held a die-in X demo in front of Melbourne University’s vice chancellor and chancellor’s office, Duncan Maskell and Jane Hanson!
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Unimelb for Palestine
27 days
Dabka lessons with 3ammo (uncle) 🕺
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Unimelb for Palestine
28 days
🚨Urgent call to action 🚨 This Thursday 10AM at University of Melbourne we will be holding our encampment We demand our University cut all its ties with all weapons manufacturers shoutout @ColumbiaSJP @NationalSJP for inspiring this global movement of encampment solidarity
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Unimelb for Palestine
27 days
Columbia first , unimelb next all universities must divest ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 ⁦ @NationalSJP ⁩ ⁦ @ColumbiaSJP
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Unimelb for Palestine
27 days
THE STUDENTS UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 days
PART 2 Disgusting behavior, implying this towards the students who are participating in the sit in while the university is the one that removed building access
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Group dabke dance at tonight’s camp ‼️
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Unimelb for Palestine
25 days
Playing a message of hope from @wizardbisan at tonight’s encampment. We will not stop till Palestine is free, we have to keep fighting and keep hope.✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
23 days
Tami speaking from an anti-Zionist Jewish perspective UM4P member at our rally today!
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
We are deeply concerned over attempts to suppress student solidarity with Palestine at the University of Melbourne’s graduation ceremonies. We are disturbed to learn of the racist conflation of keffiyehs with violence and antisemitism. #NoBloodOnOurDegrees #FreePalestine
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Unimelb for Palestine
20 days
Day 8 and our teach in on Palestinian liberation from an anti-Zionist Jewish perspective !
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
Unimelb for Palestine will be handing out keffiyehs, 9-11 am & 3-5 pm tomorrow. We are so grateful to The Sit Intifada for their generous donation of keffiyehs. donations from parents and supporters will be accepted, but students yours are for free!
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Unimelb for Palestine
4 months
NO BLOOD MONEY. NO COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE. Like, share, and tell Unimelb what you think in the comments UM4P, once again, is calling on the University of Melbourne to cut all its ties with the world’s biggest weapons manufacturer companies, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and Boeing
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Rally tomorrow at 1 PM on south lawn, we’re calling on the community to come through and join us in demanding weapons off campus and no blood on our degrees✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 months
We ran into the Vice-Chancellor on campus this week and questioned him about the disgraceful partnership that the University of Melbourne have with weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin. Our university's must end its complicity in war crimes and genocide We say not in our name!
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
On International Women’s Day, we members attended a Boeing session hosted by Unimelb about empowering women in STEM and “diversity”. When asked about Boeing’s complicity in the ongoing genocide of women in Gaza, they evaded accountability by choosing to cancel the event.
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
Despite receiving hundreds of emails and calls from concerned and angry staff members and students, Duncan Maskell has refused to meet with us. We have no choice but to raise Palestine publically in meetings until all ties with weapons and Israeli universities are cut!
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Unimelb for Palestine
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if I must die by refeat alareer read out by our organizing member Emily ✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
27 days
The president of @APAN4Palestine Nasser mashini , opening speech delivering an opening speech
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Unimelb for Palestine
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@FPMelbourne joining our encampment from Sundays rally✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
16 days
Thank you Jafra Dabke for coming down and giving us an amazing lesson 🫶🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
27 days
FPM rally has come to our encampment @FPMelbourne !!!
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
6 months
CALL TO ACTION🚨: Graduation ceremonies commence at @UniMelb tomorrow! While students at @UniMelb are graduating, universities and academic institutions in Gaza are being bombed. Show your solidarity with Palestine by wearing your keffiyeh to your graduation ceremony!
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@Umelb4Palestine
Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
Let's call this out for what it is: A punitive anti-Blak and anti-P @le $tinian censoring of graduates who are taking a stand against the University of Melbourne facilitating gen0cide through its partnership with Lockheed Martin. #NoBloodOnOurDegrees #FreePalestine
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
This Northern Kaantju, Girramay, and Badu graduate held up a sign today that read “Blakfullas for P @le $tine, No Blood on Our Degrees Lockheed Out!”. As Ethan was about to unfold their sign, the camera operator panned the camera away from them. #NoBloodOnOurDegrees #FreePalestine
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Unimelb for Palestine
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🚨 WE GIVE @australian RACIST ARTICLE A BIG FAT “F” 🚨 Our group was racially vilified and slandered by @australian but, we will rise above this ridiculous ‘article’ and the blatant discrimination we are facing, check out our grading with some much needed edits for @lunns
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
One of our organisers, @DanaInMelbourne Dana Alshaer, has done an interview with Sydney Criminal Lawyers about the run-in with Vice Chancellor Duncan Maskell, the disdain he showed her, and the continued suppression of Palestinian activism. Read more:
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Unimelb for Palestine
27 days
From the river to the sea, Duncan to the ICC ✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
@unimelb promotes academic freedoms & diversity of thought. This censorship of graduates violates what the university stands for. Email the Vice Chancellor to let him know that the censorship of Palestinian solidarity is unacceptable: vc @unimelb .edu.au #NoBloodOnOurDegrees
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Our organizing member Nabil delivering an amazing speech on how fed up students are with @UniMelb behaviour Shame on the university
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Unimelb for Palestine
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🚨Breaking ‼️ Leaked emails show Melbourne University has planned to call police on peaceful students speak-out for Palestine!! More details will be released soon in UM4P statement! #nobloodonourdegrees #freepalestine ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Powerful moments from our organizing member @DanaInMelbourne , we cannot stop fighting for a free Palestine.
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 months
Wearing your keffiyeh will be a symbol of resistance against @UniMelb 's complicity with the genocide in Gaza through their ongoing partnership with Lockheed Martin. It cannot be “business as usual” while the @UniMelb actively partakes in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
@UniMelb In Gaza through its weapons manufacturers ties that round up to more than $300 million with almost 15 different weapons manufacturers including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems and BAE systems to name a few !!
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
Almost 5,000 staff, students and alumni at the University of Melbourne have signed an open letter calling for @unimelb and VC Duncan Maskell to end their contracts with weapons companies. Melbourne University continues to be complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
@UniMelb No business as usual at Melbourne University until it cut all its ties with war mongers and end its complicity in genocide !! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸 No blood money on our degrees !! ✊🏽✊🏽🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
Keffiyehs have long symbolised unity, resilience & solidarity & increasingly being worn to amplify calls for an end to occupation & an immediate ceasefire in occupied Palestine. As Louise Adler expressed in response to the outcry of Sydney Theatre Company actors wearing keffiyehs
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
Unimelb students and staff have been demanding that UoM cut all its ties with weapons manufacturers including the world’s largest weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and BAE systems to name a few.
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Unimelb for Palestine
20 days
We stand with you side by side 🫡 @NationalSJP
@NationalSJP
National Students for Justice in Palestine
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GLOBALIZE THE STUDENT INTIFADA
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Unimelb for Palestine
4 months
In light of the ICJ ruling confirming that the Zionist state is committing and perpetrating acts of genocide against the innocent people in Gaza, UMelb remains a silent and complicit partner in sustaining this genocide through its partnerships with Israel’s biggest arms suppliers
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Unimelb for Palestine
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@SamanthaRatnam who is a unimelb alumni as well! Talking about the importance of our mobilization on campus ✊🏽
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
While students at @unimelb are graduating in air conditioned buildings, universities and academic institutions in Gaza are being bombed. Students have a right to represent their cultures and express solidarity when they graduate.
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
The UniMelb community will keep showing its solidarity for Palestine despite attempts to silence and censor us! We will not stop until the University ends its complicity in genocide! #NoBloodOnOurDegrees #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Organizing member Dana is speaking now on the academic restriction of Palestine dialogue on @UniMelb campus, and the two run ins with Duncan and his refusal to answer to why the university has a partnership with a weapons manufacturer
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Louise Adler - "For donors to feel threatened by that declaration in the comfort of an air conditioned theatre seems to me to be remarkable and disturbing.”
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 months
NTEU forum happening now, join us in medley lecture theatre!
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Louise Adler - "Why would the audience take offence to a group of actors who declared at the curtain call that they stand in solidarity with Palestinian people & what is going on under occupation at this point in time?"
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Unimelb for Palestine
20 days
@edrormba We’re not in am*rica empty head
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 months
If you do not have a keffiyeh yet, visit the folks at @thesitintifada at parliament steps to purchase one. Tag us and @unimelb in a photo of you wearing your keffiyeh with the hashtag #NoBloodOnOurDegrees .
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Unimelb for Palestine
5 months
One of our organisers, Ahmed, will be doing a radio interview on 3CR Thursday Breakfast (14/12) at 8am on behalf of UM4P!! To tune in, use the Community Radio Plus app. The interview will be accessible afterwards so you can listen to it if you miss the live broadcast.
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Unimelb for Palestine
2 months
Despite calls from UN specialists and HR organizations and most recently the UNHRC demanding a halt and embargo on weapons sales to the Zionist criminal regime UoM has been refusing to cut its weapons ties, research funds and grants, partnerships, investments and building labs.
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Unimelb for Palestine
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Call and email the Australian to make them aware of our communities disgruntlement towards this article. Phone: (02) 9288 3000 Email: letters @theaustralian .com.au
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Unimelb for Palestine
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As students, alumni, and faculty members of Melbourne University, we reaffirm that we will not be silent while our university continues to profit off and sustain the current genocide in Gaza through its LHM, BAE Systems, and Boeing partnerships.
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Unimelb for Palestine
4 months
The Zionist illegal criminal regime has systematically destroyed and blown to pieces every single university in Gaza and over 70% of schools, while simultaneously killing thousands of university and school students, and over 100 Palestinian academics so far.
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Unimelb for Palestine
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@UniMelb We will not be intimidated to stop speaking out against the genocide in occupied Palestine. Solidarity with graduates participating in this peaceful action! Media release:
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Unimelb for Palestine
6 months
They’re feeling the heat, keep up the pressure everyone 💪🏽
@nat_ironfield
Natalie Ironfield
6 months
When I called the VC's office today the person who answered the phone let me know they are receiving a lot of calls about @UniMelb 's partnership with weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin. We need to keep up the pressure - together we can get Lockheed Martin off campus!
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