Oxford and Cambridge students kicked off occupying lawns with pro-Palestinian camps as part of a series of protests in United States universities against the onslaught of Israel Defence Forces and the Israel government in Tel Aviv against the innocent Palestinian men, women, and children in which over 30,000 have been killed so far.
As per the British media, tents sprang up outside the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum on Monday morning. The organisers claimed was “a disturbing hoard of artefacts stolen from colonised peoples across the world”.
On the lawn of King’s College at the University of Cambridge, students said they had set up an encampment because the University “supports Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza”.
Organisers Cambridge for Palestine posted a video on X, formerly known as Twitter, of their members marching onto the famous lawn with tents, supplies and sleeping bags, saying they “refuse to sit idly by” while the university “supports Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza”.
At Oxford, camp leaders have pinned up a board with a list of six demands to university chiefs, including to “boycott Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation”, to “disclose all finances”, “stop banking with Barclays”, help rebuild Gaza’s education system and “divest from Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation”.
They added in a statement: “There is no university in the history of human civilisation that is more complicit in violence, dispossession, and the building of destructive colonial empires than the University of Oxford.”
