The Jeremy Bentham Room Occupation: Highlighting UCL’s role in the Suppression of the People
Sirjan Narang and Robert Delaney | 8 April 2024 | The Cheese Grater
UCL Action for Palestine (AFP), a Palestinian advocacy group not affiliated with the Students’ Union and with membership from across the student and staff community at UCL, has been at the centre of campus activism in recent months. Their ongoing occupation of the Jeremy Bentham Room highlights the growing tensions between the students and UCL management who have maintained a stance of “political neutrality” since the start of the Israel-Gaza war in October 2023.