Solidarity with what?

The arrival of hundreds of supporters of the so-called No Border Camp pro-refugee movement at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University is not an issue merely for Greece's academic community. The fact that an unauthorized event is being held on university property should in fact be an issue for all of us, as a society and a country.

Who are all these pro-refugee activists who have for the past couple of days been camping out on university grounds in Greece's second city? Who are all these young people (according to reports, the majority are Italian, German and Dutch nationals) who have arrived on their motorbikes with their tents and makeshift kitchens to spend a full 10-days at the campus, as if they own the place? How can they take over this public space, snubbing an official ban by the authorities? Where does all this attitude come from? How can they go around imposing their...