Pro-Palestinian protests against former senior US official offered rare contrast to Trump’s tightly choreographed visit to Egypt

By MEE staff Published date: 15 October 2025 17:32 BST Last update: ~12:30 EDT

Video footage of AUC’s campus shows hundreds of young, diverse Egyptians swarming the campus’s grounds and halls in protest against Kurtzer’s arrival. Many students are wearing Palestinian keffiyehs and waving the Palestinian flag.

“Who said '67? All the land is Palestine. We won’t normalise,” the students chanted, in an apparent rebuke of Arab states who call for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict based on pre-1967 borders.

In a statement, AUC’s Student Union said more than 40 student organisations had participated “in outrage, conscience, and solidarity with Palestine”.