In October last year, two Melbourne students were deported, two participating in the Pro-Palestine demonstration on the University's Parkville campus.

If the decision is maintained, students will become the first pro-Plastin student activist to suspend and deport in Australia, since 2023, starting student demonstrations against Israeli attacks on Gaza.

The student intends to appeal the decision, and she believes the university's results have been "biased" by the university, which has implemented anti-special rules that critics see as "repressive" and "authoritarianism".

The report said they were part of a group of about 20 people who occupied what they believed to be academic offices for about 90 minutes on October 9, an integral part of the university's partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Protesters called on the university to dissolve its joint program with the Israeli university, the goal of a global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign since 2004.

Career videos distributed on social media at the time showed protesters entering the office with their faces covered in Keffiyehs, hoods and masks.

The university says the staff who are working in offices harassing and intimidating employees, harming property by placing signs and stickers on some university-owned items, including monitor screens, and writing and sticking stickers on personal items including photos, including photos.

The students said their demonstrations were peaceful and clear, and they had informed people working in the office that they were protesting and even offered to reject the music they were playing so that others could continue to work.

The Disciplinary Committee found that a student facing eviction, Niam*, spoke with the Guardian Australia.

She did not find any specific movements she listed were listed as "harassment or intimidation" by the Guardian, such as placing stickers or graffiti, but her presence with others in the room itself was harassment and intimidation and also constituted incorrect university property.

The committee said they recommended expelling Niamh based on the “severity of the violation and the nature of the conduct” and the basis of her so-called violations of the student code of conduct in the past. Niam said she believes it was an involvement in her career in the “Mahmoud Hall” of the Arts West Building, which led to the university agreeing to other disclosures about its grant arrangements for its research projects.

Niamh appears to be identified as part of the protests because the university tracks her location on campus via WiFi login, the tool that has been investigated by the Victorian Information Commissioner’s Office.

She said she believed activists were "possible" for the university board, starting with then-vice vice president Duncan Maskell.

Maskell's email was criticized in an open letter signed by 174 university staff, which said the comments had the potential to hinder procedural fairness and "make the primary media seen as anti-Semitic to mistakenly construct the action."

Maskell did not respond to the open letter.

Last May, he implemented new university rules that prohibit "uneasiness" and ban protesters who are not reasons for university staff or students to enter the university.

On March 3, Emma Johnston, his successor to Vice President Emma Johnston, implemented another set of rules against the protests, including that they may not be held indoors and must not hinder the entry or exit of university buildings. These rules will apply to students and faculty, as well as to “single form of action.”

The Student Union and the National Higher Education Alliance called the new rule a “authoritarian approach” that confuses employee and student discomfort with lack of safety. The Center for Human Rights Law, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International urged the university to cancel them.

Niam said Johnston's rules were "particularly disturbing, hypocritical" and "a large amount of betrayal of student unionist values ​​and history", given Johnston's history as president of the university's student union in the 1990s, when she advocated direct action protests including sitting in the face.

"When some of the worst anti-special rules were pushed under her leadership, her words were irreconcilable with her behavior," Niam said.

“I would love to see universities take more approaches, want to sit down with their students and want to really hear where their students come from and why students around the world feel opposed to this urgent moral necessity… We have seen horrible atrocities in the Gaza region and in the West Bank and in all occupied Palestine,” she said.

A spokesman for the University of Melbourne said it would not comment on individual cases that “protect the integrity of our disciplinary process.”

The spokesman said: "The University of Melbourne has followed its disciplinary procedures in accordance with the University's policy to deal with the events that occurred in October 2024."

"This process has not yet been concluded. The University communicates directly with individuals involved in the disciplinary process. Students have the right to make appeal decisions through the disciplinary process at the University."

Last year, a student at the National University of Australia was fired and a student at Deakin University who was suspended for Palestine-related activism overturned the decisions in an appeal.

*The name has been changed