Protesters call on Brussels university to cut partnership with Israeli defense-linked firm

Pro-Palestine activists protested on Wednesday at the Free University of Brussels’ (VUB) Etterbeek campus, demanding that the university administration end its collaboration with an Israeli defense-linked company, Anadolu reports. Demonstrators hung a large banner reading “VUB helps kill Palestinians” and placed portraits of Palestinian figures across the campus, accusing the university of complicity through its research partnerships, Flemish-language daily Het Nieuwsblad reported. The protest condemned VUB’s collaboration with OIP Sensor Systems, which is owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest private arms manufacturer. Protesters demand that the partnership, which is being conducted through the university’s research center, be terminated immediately. READ: UN warns of “ethnic cleansing” as 36,000 Palestinians displaced in West Bank They claimed that technologies developed in such collaborations […]