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Last year, Professor Michelle Pace was fired from RUC. The stated reason was that she had behaved unacceptably toward her colleagues. Now she and others are speaking out. They believe she was dismissed because of political pressure and because she is too critical of Israel and too supportive of Palestine. Foto: Vilma Søndergaard

Researchers at RUC have been asked to hand over the names of students who staged actions in support of Gaza and have been reprimanded for reading poems in support of Gaza. An expert sees it as a threat to academic freedom.

Danish university leadership asked researchers to hand over students’ names after Gaza action on campus

Last year, Professor Michelle Pace was fired from RUC. The stated reason was that she had behaved unacceptably toward her colleagues. Now she and others are speaking out. They believe she was dismissed because of political pressure and because she is too critical of Israel and too supportive of Palestine. Foto: Vilma Søndergaard

Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, the rectorate at Roskilde University in Denmark (RUC) summoned four of the university’s researchers to a highly unusual meeting.

One by one, the researchers were called into an office where the university director, Henrik Zobbe, was waiting with RUC’s chief legal counsel. They had printed out photos of 12 students who had taken part in an action at the university the month before. Under the name RUC Intifada, the students had tried to draw attention to the war in Gaza by running through the university’s corridors, drumming, and forcing their way into private offices. Hate-filled graffiti directed at Israel was also written on the university’s walls.

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