The Gaza solidarity encampment at Melbourne’s Monash University was intruded on last night by a group of people brandishing Australian and Israeli flags.
Protest camps have been established at a number of Australian Universities in the last week following similar pro-Palestine demonstrations in the US.
First was the University of Sydney last Tuesday, then similar camps were set up at Australian National University (ANU), the University of Queensland (UQ), Curtin University, the University of Melbourne and, finally on Wednesday, Monash University.
At about 1am last night, just 12 hours after they set up, a group of 10-12 people, mostly middle-aged men, entered the camp and started berating the young protestors.
Students for Palestine organiser Connor Knight told VICE: “We all woke up to a massive crash when they’d thrown our fridge across the lawn and smashed up our gazebo and they pretty much started playing really…
