Pro-Palestinian demonstrators have occupied rooms at Humboldt University since Wednesday afternoon. The university held talks for more than two hours – with the result that the occupation can continue until Thursday evening.
Pro-Palestinian activists have been occupying the Social Sciences Institute of Berlin’s Humboldt University (HU) since Wednesday afternoon. The action will be tolerated until Thursday evening, 6 p.m., as the HU announced on X on Thursday night. HU President Julia von Blumenthal had already informed rbb of this decision late on Wednesday evening.
According to the message on There was an “intensive discussion” with students, and it was mutually agreed that the occupation would be tolerated until Thursday evening. From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. there will be a discussion event in the occupied institute building, in which teachers and members of the executive board will also take part. It has been determined that no other people will have access to the institute “and that there will be no further damage to property.”
According to the HU management, teaching in the Social Sciences Institute will be suspended on Thursday.
The police were on site at 4 p.m. when the occupation began. A pro-Palestinian gathering of activists on the street in front of the HU was reassigned to another location by the police on Wednesday evening.
According to police, protesters shouted pro-Palestinian slogans and waved banners on Wednesday afternoon and evening. They are also said to have smeared slogans on the walls.
A group called “Student Coalition Berlin” issued a call for the occupation of the HU. Among other things, it called for a “stop to the genocide in Palestine” and an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. An occupation of rooms at the Free University of Berlin by the same group was recently cleared by the police.
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