The protest started at the Flixbus busstop on Kennedylaan from where the group marched to Neuron, the building where Martens would give his lecture. He was here at the invitation of Mechanical Engineering and EAISI. The lecture entitled ‘Transport justice versus modeling, optimization and AI: two worlds apart?’ was supposed to start at 3.30 PM, but on the spot it turned out that another lecture was in progress in the room 0.262. The lecture by professor Karel Martens had been moved to an unknown location.

The protesting students want the university to cut ties with Israel due to the violence in Gaza. The university has previously indicated that it does not want to break those ties. Boas (special investigating officers) and security were present, but allowed the students to protest.