Who we are
KCL Palestine action is an abolitionist collective of students, alumni, and staff studying and working within/against/beyond King’s College London (KCL) who are committed to securing demilitarised, liberatory education for our communities through direct action.
Brick by brick, wall by wall // the prison, the border, the apartheid wall, the university // will fall
To learn more about our political framework, check out our resources page.
“To the university I’ll steal, and there I’ll steal,” to borrow from Pistol at
the end of Henry V, as he would surely borrow from us. This is the only
possible relationship to the American university today. This may be true
of universities everywhere. It may have to be true of the university in general. But certainly, this much is true in the United States: it cannot be
denied that the university is a place of refuge, and it cannot be accepted
that the university is a place of enlightenment. In the face of these conditions one can only sneak into the university and steal what one can. To abuse its hospitality, to spite its mission, to join its refugee colony, its
gypsy encampment, to be in but not of—this is the path of the subversive intellectual in the modern university.Moten and Harney, p.22 from ‘The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study.’ Full PDF available on our resources page.
Why we are fighting
KCL Palestine Action was formed in October 2023, in the wake of the escalation of the Americo-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people in retaliation to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. As students in the imperial-core, we see it as our duty to disrupt from the belly of the beast in solidarity with the resistance on the front lines; our collective was born out of the need for there to be concrete resistance to King’s College London’s complicity in colonial violence which transcends traditional liberal-bourgeois ‘student politics.’ In the words of Unis Resit Border Controls– we must make genocide inoperable.
Disclose
We are committed to exposing King’s College London’s complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people through forensic research; you can read our latest report here.
Divest
We demand that King’s College London divests from funds which directly support and profit from Israel’s occupation and war crimes, and ends it’s partnerships with Israeli universities, in line with the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions campaign.
Demilitarise
We demand that King’s College London signs and implements Demilitarise Education’s Treaty in line with their ethical investments policy.
Join us today
No matter what your previous experience of community organising is, you have something to offer this movement. All you need to bring is an open heart and an iron commitment to collective liberation.
We advertise our open meetings on our Instagram page and on our telegram announcements channel. Accessibility information for each meeting varies according to the venue; we try our best to include this in each call out. Please DM the Instagram page if you need any additional info or accommodations or if you are coming alone for the first time and are a bit nervous!
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