A UK court has decided two universities are allowed to shut down pro-Palestinian protest encampments. Birmingham and Nottingham universities were both awarded summary possession orders by the High Court this week, the BBC reported. Activists had “many other ways” to engage their right to protest, and the demonstrators had been trespassing, said judge Johnson. Oliver Edwards, a lawyer representing Mariyah Ali, the sole named defendant in the Birmingham case, said his client was “disheartened by this judgement but remains committed to her cause”. She was mulling an appeal, he said. “The order fr…