The president of Humboldt University in Berlin, Julia von Blumenthal, has expressed her regret that no agreement was reached with pro-Palestinian activists following the clearing of an occupied university building. “I’m not sure whether it would have succeeded, but I had the impression that we had taken a good step with this dialogue,” von Blumenthal said on Thursday after talks with pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a building. “The order then came from the very top to end the occupation. I followed this instruction,” she said. She was referring to Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner, she explai…