‘Historic’ wave of Palestinian solidarity grows at universities in Germany
Key takeaways
- Calls for universities to cut ties with Israeli institutions are rising in the country that views the BDS movement as extreme.
- The vote was almost unanimous: The student council demanded the university cease all collaboration with Israeli institutions.
- “We therefore think that cooperating with those universities is in and of itself problematic, because one is legitimising and normalising those institutions.”
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Calls for universities to cut ties with Israeli institutions are rising in the country that views the BDS movement as extreme.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Groups of students at several German universities have called on their schools to boycott Israeli partners over the genocide in Gaza [File: John Macdougall/AFP]By Niko Vorobyov Published On 9 Jun 20269 Jun 2026Nearly 700 students from Leipzig University, in Germany, sat down last month on the square outside the college cafeteria, next to the city’s old, ruined fortifications, to vote. A sea of hands rose, holding yellow cards.
The vote was almost unanimous: The student council demanded the university cease all collaboration with Israeli institutions.