This article explores the relationship between the political activism of Palestinian students in the United Kingdom and the British news media. Based on qualitative research with students in the south-east and north-west of England, the article explores how perceived imbalances in British news coverage of the Middle East motivate students to get involved in political work, how that work is constrained by the lack of media attention to student activism, and how some students attempt to circumvent news media and tackle misrepresentations of Palestinians through forms of embodied activism. In doing so, the article is concerned with the spatialities of student activism and diaspora politics. Specifically, it addresses the disconnected relationship between university campuses and national arenas of political debate, as well as the re-territorializing elements of diaspora politics in the space of the body.