As the latest university belatedly catches on a small and merry band of Sheffield students have started sitting in a room as well...
The authors of this blog don't profess to understand the details of all the different lefty groups within the student world but this latest action has been claimed by a group called ENS and led by someone called Daniel Randall...from a bit of research it seems these people support a two state solution and condemn Hamas for being the homophobic, msygonistic and anti-semitic organisation that they are - will that be reflected in any demands or will they just follow the bandwagon demands too?
We also hear that some groups oppose this latest action now...maybe a reader can explain why, have some groups finally sensed that these things do nothing beyond recruit more members for themselves?
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Nothing you said in the above post is true, apart from the basic fact that a group of students have occupied a University building. Everything else is a complete fabrication.
ReplyDelete"these things do nothing beyond recruit more members for themselves?"
ReplyDeleteYou have no idea what they achieve because you are not involved in the process. Cardiff has already divested from the arms trade, many unis are in the process of doing that too, as well as setting up scholarships (many not Gaza specific, but crisis students worldwide), and I know our own uni is currently organising a trip over to both Gaza and Israel to set up a link between the universities to facilitate cultural understanding and learning on all parts.
Also they have suceeded to get political debate back to British universities, which has not been the case for too long. Even the fact that you have set up this blog can make us smile; as it shows that there will be better times ahead with more debate and thus more ideas.
Thank you for helping us realise part of our intentions!
"Thank you for helping us realise part of our intentions!" I'm always glad to help but doubt this is really that true.
ReplyDeleteIt is possible to know what has/hasn't been achieved without being involved (it's like I could have a good working knowledge of history without being there).
What is fairly clear is that many of the sit-ins have been lying about what they've achieved with baseless claims of success. See the analysis fro St Andrews below which is yet to be refuted.