A GLASGOW University student claims to have been banned from campus after taking part in a pro-Palestine protest.
Neve McLean, a final year sociology student, was one of a group of students who disrupted an open day on the campus on April 1, calling for the university to divest from the arms industry.
Glasgow University Justice for Palestine Society (GUJPS) said they disrupted a series of talks including a welcome session and on engineering, finance and physics.
The group says the move was to “educate prospective students” on the impact of the university’s involvement in the arms trade and “how this is directly enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people”.
“They cleverly left that out of their slides so we had to show up and fill in the gaps,” a spokesperson for the activist group said.
Photographs provided by the group show students holding a Palestinian flag and a large banner that reads: "Don't pick Glasgow."
It comes after the university has seen a number of protests from students calling for the divestment of £6.8 million worth of shares it currently holds in arms companies.
Following the protest, which the group claimed involved 20 students, McLean alleged she received a disciplinary letter from Professor Martin Hendry, Vice Principle and Clerk of the Senate.
McLean now claims she is banned from all parts of the campus and will have to finish her degree “in isolation”.
She said: “The University’s decision to ban me has been extremely frustrating, but ultimately unsurprising.
“They would rather put time and resources into punitive measures instead of meaningfully engaging with the large population of staff and students at this University who believe an institution of education has no business investing in weapons.
“In the final stages of my degree I have been banned from accessing any University facilities. Senior management should be ashamed of themselves.
“The student intifada on campus fighting for divestment should be very proud of themselves, clearly the pressure is working.”
The university was forced to U-turn in March after banning student Hannah Taylor from the campus after she took part in protests in February.
The University of Glasgow has been contacted for comment.
Previously, a group of 30 students occupied one of the University’s buildings, followed the next day by around 100 taking to the main road passing through the campus to stop traffic from passing through.
Other action taken has included a hunger strike, a walk out, and the establishment of an encampment on university grounds.
