How Irish Students Won a Victory for Palestine
Students at Ireland’s Trinity College organized a solidarity encampment this week and successfully negotiated an agreement with the university to divest from Israeli companies. Trinity academic David Landy tells us how it happened.
Trinity College Dublin windows occupied by students waving Palestinian flags on May 4, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. (Artur Widak / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Students at Trinity College in Dublin, best known in recent years for its starring role in the fiction of Sally Rooney, organized a protest encampment this week in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
In the United States, universities like Columbia and the University of California, Los Angeles responded to similar encampments by calling in the police to violently disperse and arrest the protesters. Trinity, on the other hand, negotiated with the protesters and reached an agreement on divestment from Israeli companies.
It’s a strange feeling — not only did we win, but we took the win. How did this happen?
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