Pro-Palestinian activists have vowed to continue their demonstrations, despite the brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas tentatively holding.
University societies slammed the agreement as a “so-called peace deal” while others described the plan as “not enough.”
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has reiterated its demands for Britons to boycott Barclays on Saturday and has planned a march on November 2.
National convener of the Stop the War coalition, told crowds at a rally: “A ceasefire is important, but it is not enough.”
Director of the PSC Ben Jamal said he shared “the relief of the Palestinian people” about the ceasefire but added it was at risk of collapsing.
He said: “Trump’s plan is not a pathway to an enduring peace because it does not address the root causes of the conflict.
“It leaves intact Israel’s illegal military occupation of Palestinian territory and system of apartheid that extends across all of historic Palestine.
“Our campaigns will not end until the Palestinian people have their core rights to self-determination and to return realised, which requires an end to occupation and to apartheid.”
Protesters have vowed to continue the marches
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Mr Jamal added the PSC’s membership had skyrocketed from 69,000 two years ago to more than 300,000 now.
He told The Times the group had “longstanding campaigns in place before October 2023”.
A joint statement by university societies, including UCL, Swansea and Durham said “ceasefire” was “an oppressor’s term.”
The caption to the Instagram post concluded: “Our movement is nowhere near finished, and we will continue to demand our universities, corporations and governments to divest, sanction and boycott the Zionist state of Israel.”