Alshaer is one of the founders and main organisers of UniMelb for Palestine, a collective of students, staff and alumni of the University of Melbourne set up last November.

Hundreds of students at Standford University have walked out of the graduation ceremony in solidarity with the Palestinians suffering Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

'It is deeply troubling to see this continuing trend of university administrations resorting to extreme punitive measures against their own students,' CAIR-NY says