Oxford locals rally around student pro-Palestine encampment

‘I think we do have a degree of privilege and that's why we're exercising our privilege to help others.'

The normally green lawns are covered with tents Outside of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, a sea of tents have taken over the normally pristine green lawn. Oxford Action for Palestine has begun an encampment, similar to those seen at Columbia University and UCLA in the US, while demanding the university divests funds from Israel. Those who enter the impromptu ‘checkpoint’ are given a run down about the rules inside of the camp.

‘The Pitt Rivers Museum contains many artifacts and other items taken in various Colonial conquests that both the university in particular and England has been involved in the past, so we thought that using this location would be a symbolic kind of choice as a protest against the legacy of British colonialism. ‘As well as specifically the English Legacy in establishing the Israeli nation state with the Balfour declaration,’ they add.

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