Palestine and Gaza — After the Union made two demands for support of Gaza of the University in 2009 over 80 students occupied the University boardroom with a number of further demands of support for Gaza. they claim to have achieved some success as of the morning of 28 January 2009. In 2007 a Bradford Student Khaled al-Mudallal became trapped in Palestine. The union ran a campaign to support Khaled and to aid his return. It was supported by UCU, the Lectures Union and the NUS the National Students' Union. He was elected the Honorary Vice President of the LSE Students' Union and released on 4 December