In nearly 200 days, pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested outside Gothenburg University at Vasaplatsen before being evicted by the police. Now they have moved into HDK-Valand's premises a few hundred meters away, writes Gothenburg Post.
Right next to the entrance, the activist group HDK-Valand students for Palestine have done what they themselves, on posters, call a "exhibition take-over".
Klara Björk is the head of the University College of Art and Design and she writes in an email to GP:
"This is a temporary exhibition arranged by a group of students at HDK-Valand, in an internal, student-driven gallery intended for art exhibitions. HDK-Valand's management has no role in approving exhibitions by students in this gallery."
The Chairman of the Jewish Central Council, Aron Verständig, is however critical of HDK-Valand providing space for the Palestine movement and has filed a complaint with the Parliamentary Ombudsman against Gothenburg University.
"If you provide a state authority as a platform for very polarizing messages, it creates an incredibly strange situation for the general public, but also for students and teachers at the institution," he says to GP and adds that he has received reports that Jewish students at the institution feel "incredibly insecure".
