Email sent by current and former students of Middle Eastern Studies to Administration, Staff, and the Board of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at LU to express their concern with the current situation on campus.

“On May 30th, just outside of the pro-Palestinian encampment, students were thrown to the ground, brutalized, and choked by police officers. One of our classmates was a direct victim of these attacks and was hospitalised as a result. Witnessing this affects us mentally on many levels: as fellow students and as friends. We are not just outraged at the behaviour of the police, we are anxious, scared, and unsure of what might happen in the future. We feel we cannot safely study in a university that not only does not defend us but calls the police on us when we are trying to exercise our rights to protest.”

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