A building at the University of Glasgow has been doused in red paint in an apparent protest over its investment in the arms trade.
The James McCune building has been spray-painted red overnight, with the perpetrator or perpetrators currently unknown.
However, the Glasgow University Justice for Palestine Society said: "We can speculate that this may be related to the court meeting today in which management will, once again NOT discuss divesting from genocide. Long live the intifafa (sic)."
Pictures published by the Glasgow Guardian showed the building doused in red paint, the third time a campus building has been targeted in such a way.
Earlier this month student Hannah Taylor was acquitted of malicious mischief for her role in one such protest.
According to the Glasgow University Arms Divestment Coalition, the university has more than £6.8m worth of investments in the arms industry, and has also received around £600,000 in research funding from BAE Systems and Rolls Royce since 2017.
Students and others have called on the University of Glasgow to cease all investments in arms companies, meaning any company which derives more than 10% of its profits from manufacturing weapons.
The university's rector, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah told told The Herald ahead of his election: "If you are selling arms to Israel, which BAE Systems with the help of the British government through trade licences is, you are complicit.
“As a shareholder in BAE Systems you’re complicit, you are benefitting from blood money. 13,000 Palestinian children have been killed and some of them have been killed by these weapons or parts.
“That money is blood money. It’s fine to talk about blood diamonds because we’re talking about some poor African militiamen who make their money from blood diamonds – but this is blood money, blood technology.
"Glasgow University medical school has been instrumental in changing the face of medicine in the 20th and 21st Century, for this place to also be instrumental in the death of 13,000 children, over 30,000 women, men and children, over 100,000 between killed and wounded, to be the beneficiary of blood money – it betrays the very essence of what Glasgow University stands for and what Glasgow as a city stands for."
A University of Glasgow spokesperson said: “All research carried out at the University of Glasgow is underpinned by polices and a Code of Good Practice that ensures it is conducted to the highest standards of academic rigour.”
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