Oxford and Cambridge students set up Gaza protest camps while encampments have been established at UK universities in recent days.
Jewish students must not be harassed or intimidated, the Education Secretary has said after Oxford and Cambridge staff and students set up camps on their university campuses to protest against the war in Gaza.
“This is creating a hostile and toxic atmosphere on campus, which these protests will add to, when students are beginning some of the most important exams of their lives. The protesters are calling for the universities to cut financial ties with Israel after the country’s offensive in Gaza. They said: “Oxbridge’s profits cannot continue to climb at the expense of Palestinian lives, and their reputations must no longer be built on the whitewashing of Israeli crimes.
Cambridge for Palestine called on the university to disclose financial and professional ties to Israel, divest from related organisations, and reinvest in supporting Palestinian students, academics and scholars.Demands by Oxford Action for Palestine include the university disclosing a comprehensive account of university-wide assets and divesting from “all companies that are complicit in Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation of Palestine within the next five years”.
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