CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY has succumbed to pressure and agreed to meet pro-Palestine activists, less than a day after students escalated their campaign.

Students demanding divestment from firms complicit in Israel’s war crimes had expanded their camp outside King’s College, also taking over the lawn outside Senate House, before the university administration agreed to meet activists to discuss preconditions for negotiations. 

A Cambridge for Palestine spokesperson said: “This is a successful example of protest action working to achieve our goals — we are determined to extend this success in getting our university to divest from all financials fuelling the genocide in Gaza and Palestine.”