Brazil university students join pro-Palestine protest

Similar to the pro-Palestine protests going on in the prominent US universities, Brazil university's students have also joined the protest and raised the Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and calling for an “immediate ceasefire.”

The latest development in the ongoing pro-Palestine protests is that students from Brazil’s University of Sao Paulo set up a solidarity camp for Gaza today.

The university is known as Latin America’s most prestigious university. The students from various faculties protested against Israel. The protestors chanted “Free Palestine” and called for an “immediate ceasefire," and also raised Palestinian flags.

A student Francisco Napolitano said that the demonstrations in support of Palestine at universities in the United States inspired them, as reported by Middle East Monitor.

Brazil university protest: Messages circulating on X Platform

"Hundreds of students established an encampment at Sao Paulo University in Brazil in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza, joining the global student intifada," says a message on the X platform.

"Global student movements in support of Palestine continue....Students at the University of São Paulo in Brazil join the international protest movement for Palestine and Gaza....," said another message on X Platform.

About Brazil’s University of Sao Paulo

The university was established in 1934. The students don't pay any fee for studying at the university as the university is maintained by state taxes. In the Brazilian system of education, free public education maintains the highest quality in teaching, extension and research.

The university has the best researchers in the country on its staff, which reflects on the quality of teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The university offers a total of 249 undergraduate programs and the number of students enrolled is nearly 58,000. There are a total of 239 graduate programs, with around 28,000 students. There are 993 different courses involving specialization, improvement, updating and diffusion, with over 29,000 students. Until early 2013, more than 100,000 doctoral theses and Master dissertations have been defended.

The university was originally laid out in the 1950s as a health sciences campus (medical and nursing sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, dentistry), later on, several academic specialities were added including School of Physical Education, School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, a Law School, and an undergraduate program in Music.

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