The Supporters of the Palestinian Revolution were leftist-led student societies that mushroomed on the Egyptian university campuses in the beginning of the 1970s, and was credit with the student revolt 1971-3. Many of today’s veteran dissidents were members of that group when they were students. Now after the January 2011 revolution, these societies are being revived once again.

And they tell you the Egyptian revolution is domestic and has nothing to do with Israel. Hah!

Students from Ain Shams, Cairo, and Al-Azhar universities protested today in front of the Israeli embassy in Giza, calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.

The daily Dustour more alarmingly has reported the return of the same SS officers in charge of the monitoring student activities back to Cairo University campus on Thursday, but this time as National Security Sector officers. In other words, they just took off their SS hats and put on the NSS.

It’s unacceptable that we sit idly and watch PM Essam Sharaf play with us little deadly game of musical chairs. Every single member of SS, from the informers to the Generals must be put on trial. This is an agency that was solely devoted to torture, surveillance, murder, rape and the protection of the corrupt Mubarak clique. They have to be in jails, not recycled in other departments. Those criminal elements are central to the counterrevolution that is gearing up in Egypt and their threat has to be neutralized as soon as possible. Egypt will be a safer place when those SS members are behind bars.

UPDATE: Al-Mesreyoon publishes the names of the SS officers who returned to service at Cairo University: Medhat Atef Hashad, deputy head of the Giza SS bureau and who’s in charge of the Cairo University file, Lt. Colonel Hossam Nabil Hassan and Major Ahmad Tamer Fareed.

Students at Cairo University denounce attacks by the military police, against their sit-in, which started on 6 March demanding the impeachment of the university and faculty deans associated with the Mubarak’s regime.

Cairo University March 22, 2011, where students had started a sit-in on 6 March demanding the impeachment of the university and faculty deans associated with the Mubarak’s regime.

The military police yesterday stormed Cairo University campus, suspending by force the ongoing sit in by the Mass Com students calling for impeaching the university president, faculty dean and other figures affiliated with the Mubarak’s regime. The soldiers used sticks and tasers, temporarily detaining a number of students and professors.

A protest is scheduled today at 12 noon in solidarity with the students in front of the Cairo University gate.

Continuous updates on the Egyptian student movement could be found on that Diigo group.

Cairo University students continue their protests against Hossam Kamel, the university president, and brother of Mubarak’s telecommunications minister Tarek Kamel. The students want complete purge of the administration from any corrupt regime figures, dissolution of the state-controlled student unions, lifting all restrictions on political activities, free education and affordable text books.

One quote I really like from the young female student who’s leading the chants above: “We will run the university. The university will not run us.”

A similar revolt is reported in virtually all state universities where classes were resumed.