King’s College London Disciplines 26 Students for Pro-Palestine Activity

King’s College London investigated 26 students for pro-Palestine protest activity between October 2023 and November 2025, the highest total among British universities, Al Jazeera reported. The cases included an encampment that began in May 2025, attempts to disrupt three events, and two social media posts.

Khadija, an 18-year-old student, received a phone call seven weeks into her degree informing her that she had made inappropriate remarks about a lecturer who had served in the Israeli army.

She was banned from the lecturer’s classes for the remainder of the term and ordered to write a 2,000-word reflective essay. University staff considered referring her to the Prevent counterterrorism programme before deciding against it. Thirteen of the 26 students faced investigation over the May 2025 encampment.

Nine received formal warnings for erecting tents in breach of a health and safety policy introduced after an earlier encampment in summer 2024. Two students were warned for lending keycards to non-students, and two others for filming security staff. Hamza, a 21-year-old student of Lebanese heritage, accepted a formal warning after his appeal hearing was delayed more than five months.

A 24-year-old student who received a warning for setting up a tent said the process left him feeling silenced and deterred him from further activism. Six students were sanctioned for protests that disrupted an alumni dinner in June 2024, a February 2025 talk by a pro-Israel speaker, and the May 2025 London Defence Conference.

Two security guards were injured unintentionally during pushing at one event.