As the small party SÖZ (“Social Austria of the Future”) announced in a press release on Wednesday, almost 100 activists and students organized themselves on Wednesday morning “to set up a Palestine solidarity camp for a second time in the context of the genocide that has been going on for almost eight months.” Vienna. The TU Vienna was not immediately available for comment. An editor from RegionalMedien Wien reported in an on-site inspection that around two dozen patrol cars were in use at the site, at least nine camp tents and a good 25 activists were visible on Wednesday morning. The situation was calm.
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The SÖZ stressed that they had only offered the students the platform, but that the content came from the students themselves and was not connected to the party.
“Complicity of the TU”
In the press release, the organizers of the protest camp criticize the “complicity of the TU,” especially in its cooperation with the Israel Institute of Technology (TECHNION). “The TECHNION is a cornerstone of the Israeli military industry and promotes research by Israeli military projects such as Elbit Systems. With this cooperation, the TU Wien is directly complicit in the genocide that the Israeli military is committing against the Palestinians,” the press release states.
A pro-Palestine protest camp on the campus of the University of Vienna was cleared by police in May.
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