Protest camp remains outside Cambridge University graduation venue
Protesters have vowed to continue until a set of demands are met.
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Your support makes all the difference.A pro-Palestine protest encampment remains in place outside a Cambridge University building where graduations have taken place since the 18th century, the day before a graduation is due to take place.
Protesters pitched tents on a lawn outside Senate House earlier this week, and graduation ceremonies are due to take place on Friday and Saturday.
A banner attached to the fence, alongside a Palestinian flag, reads “Senior admin: negotiate”.
Former home secretary Suella Braverman was interviewed by a GB News reporter in the rain outside Senate House on Thursday, with smaller crowds at the protest than on Wednesday.
Mrs Braverman held a black umbrella as she walked along King’s Parade, flanked by security minders, towards King’s College where a first protest encampment appeared last week.
As she was interviewed outside King’s College, her face screened from several angles by umbrellas, an elderly activist held a placard which said “openly Jewish against visible genocide”.
A marked police van parked outside Senate House and there were uniformed officers on foot patrol in the area around lunchtime.
There had been a rally and march around that time the previous day, but the protest appeared muted in the rain on Thursday.
Protesters have vowed to continue until a set of demands are met, and on Wednesday they chanted: “Let your students graduate; come and negotiate.”
The university said in a previous statement that it would be “happy to talk with our students and engage with them” but it was “impossible to have a conversation with an anonymous group”.