A Jewish student at Oxford University has been denied admittance to the event after he refused to sign up for a radical pro-Palestine pledge in a sign that the Gaza university demonstrations sweeping the UK are becoming more authoritarian.
Elsewhere, students from the University of Cambridge began shouting the genocidal ‘From the river to the sea’ chant and calling for an ‘intifada’ at their encampment outside King’s College.
In Cambridge, students have been seen marching through the city to the Old Schools University Offices while chanting ‘Israel is a terrorist state’ before tucking into batch-cooked pesto pasta and focaccia.
Media covering the event in Oxford have been mobbed and abused by demonstrators whilst attendees to the encampment have been told they must be ‘committed to upholding the Thawabit’ in order to join in.
Speaking to MailOnline, the Jewish student in his 30s said he was too concerned for his safety to give his name and that he wanted to bring an Israeli flag but thought better of it as he ‘didn’t want to end up in hospital’.
He said he would not sign a document condemning the ‘Zionist entity’ and backing Palestinian Thawabit.
‘The fact that they allowed in Press TV tells you everything you need to know about them. How many rockets did Iran send at Israel?’
The Jewish student added: ‘They haven’t gone as far as the Americans have done and hopefully it will not. But if it comes to this point, they start harassing, they start blocking entries to buildings then they will have to do something about it. I think it’s not a university job, it’s the police’s job.
‘If it starts getting out of control, they have to do something about it.’
The activists refused to let the student in, then went back to their planned programme, which included couscous for lunch, talks, poetry readings, and finally a film screening at nine o’clock at night.
Dozens of masked campaigners in Cambridge spent the night sleeping in tents outside the universities and have a packed day planned featuring marches, speeches and ‘apartheid workshops.’
Leading one of the workshops in Cambridge was serial activist Stella Swain, a student who has been at the university since 2018 and previously voted against the promotion of Remembrance Day and the Poppy Appeal.
Receiving his letter from the mob in person was Mr Bhaskar Vira, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Cambridge.
This was orchestrated chaos. The powers that could stop it immediately did not want to do so. They should have been removed immediately because they were disturbing real students who were getting ready for their exams.
Some of these could have been paid activists who’d been organising and planning these protests for months, if not longer.
Why don’t they demand that Hamas release the captives right away if they want a ceasefire? Their status as students explains why. They live in a simple environment where they struggle to overcome obstacles.
Those in charge of these universities need to be removed from their positions because for far too long our universities have been allowed to support and introduce left-wing politics to their students.
It’s time for our government to step in and show some mettle by closing down these establishments until they’ve put their house in order because freedom of speech and protest can’t be allowed to overrule the freedom of others.
Sadly, students protest about things they don’t understand, that’s not a shocker, it’s been going on since the 1960s with different issues. They find a bandwagon and jump on it before they know where it comes from and where it will go.
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