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Is OfS consultation on sexual harassment being used as a government response to Gaza protests?

In British universities, the number of student Gaza-related protests continues to grow. There are now reported encampments or occupations, of various sizes, at the universities of Warwick, Leeds, Bristol, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield, Swansea, Goldsmiths, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford, Aberdeen, Liverpool, Queen’s Belfast, the School of Oriental and African Studies and University College London.

Following similar protests on campuses in the US, some of which have turned violent, with police intervention, there is a nervousness that protests at UK universities could spiral out of control. That seems unlikely at present based on the few student camps that Playbook has witnessed—the central demand of the students involved in the protests is that their own institutions divest from companies and services connected to the state of Israel.

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