SHOTLIST GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (MAY 8, 2025) (ANADOLU-ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF PRO-PALESTINE STUDENTS / SIGNS, BANNERS HANGING ON WALLS 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MEMBER OF GENEVA UNIVERSITY PALESTINIAN STUDENT COORDINATION COMMITTEE, TRAHEL SAYING: “We were already here exactly one year ago in May 2024 and we have the same demands to our university that have not been responded to throughout the whole year and so this is our only way to be heard, to re-occupy and we have clear demands to the direction of our university and we stand by them. Our demands are to stop collaborations with Israeli institutions that are implicated in the genocide in Palestine, to cut these collaborations, because given what is happening in Palestine, especially right now, there is a siege on Gaza for two months, no aid is entering, and Israel just announced a complete open colonization of Gaza. We feel like the complicity of our institution is not acceptable and we need that to stop. So that's our main demand, to stop those collaborations because Israeli institutions are also complicit. It's important to know that this is not against individuals, this is against institutions as a whole. We tried to, for a long time we tried to, the dialogue has been cut from their behalf, they created the committee but they kicked out the students, so it is not democratic at all. So yes, we sent an email to our rectorate, to our direction of the university today, again with our demands, we haven't received an answer, we've only received a deadline to leave the building again. So there's no possibility, there's no openness from the direction to talk to us. We will stay here until we get the institutional boycott; the academic boycott is our goal and that's why we're here and we stand united against it. Free Palestine.”GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - MAY 8: Students at the University of Geneva have relaunched a pro-Palestine protest on campus, accusing the university administration of ignoring their demands for over a year to sever ties with Israeli institutions complicit in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. The demonstration, organized by the Geneva University Palestinian Student Coordination Committee, marks the one-year anniversary of similar protests that swept Swiss campuses in May 2024. Protesters have reoccupied part of the university, vowing to remain until their demands are met. Rahel, a member of the student group, told Anadolu that the university had failed to engage in meaningful dialogue despite repeated attempts. "We were already here exactly one year ago in May 2024, and we have the same demands that have not been responded to throughout the whole year," she said. "This is our only way to be heard—to reoccupy. We have clear demands for the university leadership, and we stand by them." The students' primary demand is an immediate end to the university’s collaborations with Israeli institutions linked to what they describe as the "genocide in Palestine." "Given what is happening in Palestine, especially right now, there is a siege on Gaza for two months, no aid is entering, and Israel just announced a complete open colonization of Gaza. We feel like the complicity of our institution is not acceptable and we need that to stop," Rahel said. "Our main demand, to stop those collaborations because Israeli institutions are also complicit. This is not against individuals but against complicit institutions." Rahel alleged that the university administration has shut down communication, disbanding a committee meant to address their concerns without student representation. “There's no possibility, there's no openness from the direction to talk to us. We will stay here until we get the institutional boycott; the academic boycott is our goal,” she added. Last year, similar protests across Switzerland, including at the University of Geneva, were dispersed by police, with several students detained. Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, launched after an October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, has killed over 52,600 people, mostly women and children, according to Palestinian authorities. Reporting by Muhammet Ikbal Arslan Writing by Sibel Uygun