There are a few dozen students outside the university and a few dozen inside as well. They’ve been staging a sit-in for nearly 24 hours. We know that university authorities have asked them to leave, but so far they haven’t.

There’s a pretty light police presence, and for now, the protesters are being left alone. They’ve got a number of banners saying “No to war” and saying this is a genocide.

They’re here protesting not only for the Palestinian people and asking for an end to the war but also saying they want universities in France, including Sciences Po, which is one of the most prestigious in France, to cut ties with Israeli universities.

They’re also calling on the French government to do more to protect the Palestinian people and protect what they say has been an erosion of freedom of speech. There were protests here at the university before. The police moved in and moved away those protesters.

This isn’t, at this stage, the sort of movement we’re seeing in the US. There have been two or three of these protests or sit-ins at this particular university, but we haven’t seen them in other universities throughout France.

Certainly, some of the students here are hoping we might see a wave of protests across French universities.


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