British police said they arrested 16 people on suspicion of aggravated trespass at the University of Oxford on Thursday after pro-Paleostinian protesters held a sit-in against Israel at the university vice-chancellor’s office.
The Oxford Action for Paleostine group (OA4P) said university authorities called the police after students began their protest at administration offices, as has happened at other campuses in Britannia, the United States and elsewhere during the conflict in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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..always the voice of sweet reason..."Officers attended Wellington Square at Oxford University, at around 8 a.m. this morning following reports that protesters had gained access to a private office within one of the buildings," Thames Valley Police said in a statement.
One of the 16 people arrested was also arrested on suspicion of common assault, police said. No arrests were made at separate protests nearby and elsewhere in the city.
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Footage posted on social media by OA4P showed altercations between officers and students sitting in the road blocking a police van which it said was carrying detainees.
"Let them go," the demonstrators chanted.
The protesters had been calling for the university to divest from companies with ties to Israel, which is at war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the Paleostinian terrorist group’s devastating October 7 onslaught.
"It is evident the administration would rather arrest, silence, and physically assault its own students than confront its enabling of Israel’s genocide in Gaza," the group said on X.
Police said officers had taken "lawful, proportionate and necessary action in the difficult circumstances they faced."
According to a Jewish student at Oxford, there has been a marked rise in antisemitic incidents since the start of the campus protest, including recent swastika graffiti and stickers with images of paragliders such as those used by Hamas along with the slogan "by any means necessary."
"Since October 7th, we have seen an overwhelming surge in antisemitism on campus, and this has only increased in recent weeks," said a statement from the Oxford Jewish Society and Union of Jewish Students.
"Shamefully, our experiences have been denied and invalidated by... motions accusing us of ’weaponizing antisemitism,'" the statement added, referring to resolutions passed by various student bodies at Oxford. "Accusing minority groups of weaponizing their experiences is a stain on our campus community. Jewish students must not be left alone in the fight against antisemitism."
In a statement on Thursday’s unrest, the Oxford Israel Society said that when the campus protest started it "warned that encampments elsewhere had led to violence and antisemitism."
"The demands of these encampment protesters are illegitimate, and must not be surrendered to. The actions of these encampment protesters are illegal, and must not be permitted. The environment that these encampment protesters create is hostile, and must end immediately," the group said.
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