
{"id":302231,"date":"2024-05-16T20:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=302231"},"modified":"2024-05-16T20:52:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T00:52:42","slug":"students-and-freedom-of-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/students-and-freedom-of-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and freedom of expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. students who, out of compassion or anger, are protesting or in encampments (perhaps to evoke refugee camps) on their university campuses, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to repudiate Israel\u2019s genocidal behavior; are protecting their right to exercise solidarity in the First Amendment to the Constitution of their country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without the first 10 amendments, the U.S. Constitution would be an irrelevant text and the United States would be a large and rich country, but not the paradigm that that document made it. \u201cCongress,\u201d the text alleges, \u201cmay make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free practice thereof; nor limiting freedom of expression or of the press; nor the right to peaceful assembly of the people\u2026.\u201d The margin note made the difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The significance of the postulate lies in the fact that all rights and all freedoms, creeds and faith, ideas such as demands, programs, and goals, loves and hates, exist as long as they are expressed. Without freedom of expression, no freedom and no rights can be realized.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302234\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/minnesota-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302234\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/minnesota-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/minnesota-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/minnesota-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/minnesota-1-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/minnesota-1-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/minnesota-1-750x564.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/minnesota-1-1140x858.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Minnesota. Photo: Fight Back! News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freedom of expression is, above all, the freedom to think differently. Dissent from power and social hierarchies, and criticize individuals and institutions, as well as believe or not believe and freely disseminate and publish opinions. It is about the freedom to speak, write, recite and sing, edit and circulate books, newspapers and magazines, create scripts, make and exhibit films, and even tell tales and invent stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right to freedom of expression includes all ways of communicating a message, to those who issue it and to its recipients.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302235\" style=\"width: 1145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-13-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302235\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-13-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1145\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-13-1.jpg 1145w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-13-1-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-13-1-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-13-1-768x345.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-13-1-750x337.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-13-1-1140x513.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1145px) 100vw, 1145px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) occupy the steps of the main building of that university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The students affirmed that \u201cneither the retaliation from the university administration nor the reprimands\u201d from President Joe Biden, who accused them of anti-Semitism, will prevent them from continuing to demonstrate in favor of Palestine. EFE\/I\u00f1aki Est\u00edvaliz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political power, control of markets and technologies, and religious institutions, by the European crowns that became colonialists, allowed them to introduce the slave trade and slavery that, exercised over almost five centuries, promoted racism. They were the ones who created and disseminated the theoretical aberrations about races, still in force, especially in the United States, the place in the world where contempt and hatred against blacks, Latinos, and all dark peoples is most current.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Racism based on skin color, protected by colonialism, generated apartheid and added to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and more recently to Russophobia.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302237\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/protestas-gaza-estudiantes-1366x912-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302237\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/protestas-gaza-estudiantes-1366x912-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/protestas-gaza-estudiantes-1366x912-1.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/protestas-gaza-estudiantes-1366x912-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/protestas-gaza-estudiantes-1366x912-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/protestas-gaza-estudiantes-1366x912-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/protestas-gaza-estudiantes-1366x912-1-750x501.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/protestas-gaza-estudiantes-1366x912-1-1140x761.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman walks near tents at Oxford University in front of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History as students occupy parts of British university campuses to protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Photo: Reuters\/Hollie Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The paradoxical and perhaps tragic thing is that freedom of expression also protects manifestations of hate, racism and xenophobia, chauvinism, bullying and ridicule, even slander and expressions of bad faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the impossibility of violating freedoms, it is obvious that these negative attitudes can be regulated and even penalized. The problem is how to codify them and determine which ones are made illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was correct that many European states, among others Germany and the Soviet Union, outlawed fascist ideology. Still, the currents that with a certain superficiality describe reactionary or right-wing attitudes as fascist are not correct.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302236\" style=\"width: 1145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-11-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-302236 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-11-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1145\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-11-1.jpg 1145w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-11-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-11-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-11-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-11-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-11-1-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1145px) 100vw, 1145px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the students gathered in a meeting in support of Palestine and to demand a ceasefire in Gaza this Friday, in the University City of Madrid. EFE\/Juliana Leao-Coelho.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 18th century, women had to refrain from showing their legs and no matter how discreet a neckline was, it was cause for scandal. Even today there are places where it is punishable for them to show their face or wear their hair uncovered and they have the \u201cmorality police.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adjusting to the historicity of phenomena of an ideological and political nature and validating repressive and in some cases inhuman actions, being excessively permissive in the name of local values and customs, can lead to a kind of legal and moral relativism.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302238\" style=\"width: 1145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-9-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-302238 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-9-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1145\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-9-1.jpg 1145w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-9-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-9-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-9-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-9-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-9-1-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1145px) 100vw, 1145px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students camp at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo to demand that Brazil break its diplomatic relations with Israel and encourage a ceasefire in a conflict in which at least 34,000 Palestinians have died. Photo: EFE\/Carlos Meneses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This moral relativism is discussed today in the United States where, invoking the First Amendment, extermination practices are tolerated and students who name the xenophobia committed by Israel in Palestine are repressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given the courage and determination of the young people who, at Harvard, Columbia, Yale, leave the bubble that serves as their comfort zone to defend the victims of the genocide being committed in Gaza and condemn the perpetrators, I have remembered the couplets that Mercedes Sosa dedicated to all of them:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long live the students\/ Garden of our joy\/ They are birds that are not scared\/ Of animals or police\/ And they are not scared of bullets\/ Nor of the barking of the pack of hounds&#8230; I like students Who roar like the winds\/When they are forced to hear cassocks and regiments&#8230; Long live the students! See you there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*This text was originally published in the newspaper <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a1Por esto!<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is reproduced with the express authorization of its author.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302244\" style=\"width: 1145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302244\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1145\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-6-1.jpg 1145w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-6-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-6-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-6-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-6-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-6-1-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1145px) 100vw, 1145px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather in a camp at the University of Costa Rica in support of the Palestinian people, who continue to suffer the war siege by Israel. Photo: EFE\/Jeffrey Arguedas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302239\" style=\"width: 1145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302239\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1145\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-2-1.jpg 1145w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-2-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-2-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-2-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-2-1-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1145px) 100vw, 1145px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Alicante (UA) carry out a protest before starting a camp on the San Vicente del Raspeig campus to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Photo: EFE\/Morell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302240\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-maine-palestina-1366x843-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302240\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-maine-palestina-1366x843-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-maine-palestina-1366x843-1.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-maine-palestina-1366x843-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-maine-palestina-1366x843-1-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-maine-palestina-1366x843-1-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-maine-palestina-1366x843-1-750x463.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-maine-palestina-1366x843-1-1140x704.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstration at the University of Maine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302241\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-harvard-palestina-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302241\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-harvard-palestina-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-harvard-palestina-1.jpeg 1290w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-harvard-palestina-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-harvard-palestina-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-harvard-palestina-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-harvard-palestina-1-750x500.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-harvard-palestina-1-1140x760.jpeg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstration at Harvard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302242\" style=\"width: 1145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-12-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302242\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-12-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1145\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-12-1.jpg 1145w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-12-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-12-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-12-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-12-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-12-1-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1145px) 100vw, 1145px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Encampment at the University of Barcelona in support of Palestine. Photo: EFE\/Enric Fontcuberta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302243\" style=\"width: 1145px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-10-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302243\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-10-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1145\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-10-1.jpg 1145w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-10-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-10-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-10-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-10-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/estudiantes-palestina-universidades-efe-10-1-1140x761.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1145px) 100vw, 1145px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Encampment at the entrance to the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon in favor of Palestine. 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