Pro-Palestine protesters have set up a new encampment outside St John’s College, after they were removed from Trinity College this morning (02/06).

Trinity College served around ten individuals in tents with an interim high court injunction, evicting them in order to allow students to “study and take exams without disturbance,” and to ensure staff can carry out their work.

Following this, activists from Cambridge for Palestine (C4P) have assembled tents outside St John’s College Chapel, with a spokesperson claiming that a freedom of information request showed the College to hold £3.2 million in arms companies including BAE Systems and Elbit Systems, and emphasising that protesters are “just going to continue”.

John’s have previously rejected Freedom of Information Requests about investments on the grounds of ‘trade secrets’.

The College has previously faced criticism for their investments, with C4P disrupting last year’s May Ball by climbing the walls of the College’s New Court building and dropping a banner calling on the Cambridge college to “divest from genocide”.

A spokesperson for C4P criticised Trinity for not being “keen to understand what we’re telling them,” including that “they are currently investing in genocide and the murder of the Palestinians”.

They urged other colleges, “especially rich colleges who have their own private investments,” to follow King’s in divesting from arms.

Speaking of the prospect of further high court injunctions, the spokesperson said: “The fact that they use repression is not going to keep us from doing what we can. They added: “We are not cowards like they are. We are not going to hide behind institutional safety. We are not going to hide behind whatever excuses we can find, whatever legal excuses we can find.”

A spokesperson for Trinity College stated that they are “fully committed to supporting the right to protest and to freedom of speech within the law,” and that the injunction had been obtained to allow “students to study and take exams without disturbance, and staff to carry out their work”.

The C4P spokesperson also stated that Cambridge can “expect us to come back somewhere else,” if they are served with another injunction, adding: “The University can expect us to come back any time they try to shut us out.”

The encampment at Trinity was set up on Friday, (30/05) urging the University to disclose and divest investments in arms companies. The protesters also claimed that Cambridge had blocked “meaningful progress on divestment” in a working group on arms divestment, and adopted “anti-protest” policies against them.

The University has previously acquired injunctions against students occupying their head offices, with a spokesperson for the University previously denied that injunctions restrict the right to protest, labelling this allegation “ridiculous”.

Cambridge Uni Staff for Palestine sent an email to supporters stating that Trinity had obtained an interim injunction from the High Court this morning, “ordering protesters to immediately vacate Newton’s Lawn and remove their possessions”. The email stated that the College had begun erecting a fence around the encampment and had “so far refused to let protesters remove their belongings even though they [had] left Trinity’s land”.

John’s has also set up metal fencing around a small lawn in front of the College has this afternoon, on the end of St John’s Street. Trinity has put up wooden boarding in front of its main lawn, where the ceremonial Newton’s Apple Tree stands.

A high court hearing for the injunction at Trinity has been scheduled for 5 June. It is currently unclear whether St John’s College is seeking legal action against protesters.

St John’s College has been contacted for comment