The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University has forcibly removed students who were occupying university premises in protest over the London-based university’s ties with Israel’s University of Haifa . The protesters, which included members of the university’s Palestine Society, began their demonstration on February 23. They occupied the management wing of the university building to demand a boycott of Haifa University and cutting ties with a “settler-colonial state”. The university confirmed to The New Arab on Friday that “bailiffs removed the protesting [students] from the Mai…