“I’m dodging the draft because this is a genocide,” says Dmitri*, a student at a UK university who recently avoided a call-up to serve in the Russian military, which is invading Ukraine. He also opposes another ongoing war, the Israeli offensive in the devastated Gaza Strip, and is involved in pro-Palestinian activism at his university. “I’m fighting against genocide on campus because I don’t want to be part of any genocide,” the Russian and British dual national tells The New Arab. “They stood against tyranny once, why can’t they do it again?” ‘Scary’Dmitri learnt late last year, after the Oc…