LUAP is a self-organized group advocating for Palestinian rights at Lund University.
LUAP consists of staff and students from across Lund University.
LUAP is politically independent.
LUAP has written a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Lund University, Erik Renström. To read this letter and sign it, please click here.
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We, members of faculty and staff of Lund University, stand in unwavering solidarity with our students who, together with students across the country, have set up an encampment, thus joining the international student movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
We demand that the university fully disclose information on its collaborations with Israeli institutions and companies complicit in Israeli apartheid and occupation across all departments and units. These have been widely condemned by the international community and resulted in widespread human rights violations. In the past eight months they have turned into a genocidal campaign. Furthermore, we demand that the university, as a publicly funded institution, ensures that none of its funds or research projects directly or indirectly support the Israeli military or any entities involved in the production of military technologies used in the occupation.
We echo the student’s call on the University leadership to issue a statement expressing deep concern about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, including the humanitarian crisis, and reaffirming the responsibility of academia and the higher education sector protecting human rights and democratic freedoms, as was promptly done following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As a university community, we are deeply troubled by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the devastating impact it has on future generations. We similarly reiterate the demand to contribute in every possible way to the rebuilding of the education sector in Gaza, a demand which originates from our Palestinian colleagues. Given the scholasticide perpetrated by the IDF in Gaza, the commitment to the reconstruction of the Gazan education sector is vital.
These students’ demands should not come as a surprise to the leadership of Lund University. Already in January more than four hundred of LU’s students and staff signed a letter addressed to the Vice Chancellor Eric Renström putting forward similar demands - demands that have not been heeded to yet and to which no response has been provided. This is particularly regrettable, since these demands are in line with Lund University’s Strategic Plan 2017-2026, Platform for Strategic Work 2023-2024, Global Responsible Engagement and especially with the Call to Action by Scholars at Risk.
Historically, student protests have turned out to be on the right side of history, advocating for the end of the US war on Vietnam, prompting the boycott of apartheid South Africa, and standing for civil rights and against racism. We are certain that now, too, the students have full moral clarity on the situation in Gaza. Fulfilment of their demands will ensure compliance with international law, given the finding of the International Court of Justice that genocide is plausibly being perpetrated in Gaza.
Thus, we urge the university leadership and the law enforcement to respect the exercise of the right of assembly and of peaceful protest by the students. We hold the university administration accountable for ensuring the physical safety and well-being of the students engaged in this peaceful protest, as well as protecting their fundamental right to freedom of expression.
