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With a ladder and flares in hand, we made our way to the Liverpool Guild of Students, the students union of the University of Liverpool where the National Union of Students (NUS) 100th year anniversary conference party was being held. It was the night that Palestinian rapper and activist Lowkey was supposed to perform, having been forced to cancel due to ongoing attacks from Union of Jewish Students against him and marginal support for Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement within the NUS. Hurriedly setting up the ladder on the side of the street, we carried banners decla…