EXCLUSIVE: A Jewish student at Oxford University has been denied admittance to the event after he refused to sign up to a radical pro-Palestine pledge.
A Jewish student at Oxford University has been denied admittance to the event after he refused to sign up to a radical pro- Palestine pledge in a sign that the Gaza university demonstrations sweeping the UK are becoming more authoritarian.
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’. Activists in Cambridge have a packed day planned featuring marches, speeches and 'apartheid workshops'CAMBRIDGE: Leading one of the workshops in Cambridge was serial activist Stella Swain
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. In Coventry, a copycat protest to those at Oxbridge has struck up in protest of the University of Warwick's ties with arms manufactures.
'Now, with the encampment seeking to mimic what has been seen across United States campuses, we are deeply concerned that there will be further escalation in the vilification of Jewish students in Oxford.'The confrontational demonstrations have been slammed by the government. Ella, the co-external affairs officer of Cambridge University Jewish Society, told MailOnline that their main priority was keeping Jewish students safe while the protest movement builds.
'The specifics of the Cambridge protest, we aren't seeing anti-semitics like Leeds and Birmingham. But there is obviously going to be some anxiety among Jewish students with the protest movement building.' 'Most Jewish students, and students full stop believe in continual right to protest and that freedom of speech on campus is really important.'I haven't been properly down, but I've walked past it. It seems fairly peaceful, quiet. I saw the rally but I didn't feel particularly intimidated, I'm sure other students may have done.
'A lot of Jewish students on campus feel quite scared,' he added. 'They are just keeping their heads down. But I had to take a stand. The Israeli 401st Brigade entered the Rafah crossing and took 'operational control' of the crucial crossing for both aid and those able to flee into Egypt, officials said, adding this morning that they had 'eliminated approximately 20 terrorists'.
The overnight offensive came just hours after Israel roundly rejected a new ceasefire deal hashed out by Egyptian and Qatari negotiators that Hamas claimed it had backed. The protests seek to emulate those seen at American universities in recent weeks, where more than 130 college campuses have been targeted by pro-Palestine supporters.As Gaza protests continue to grow in the UK, the government has expressed 'serious' concerns they could escalate to violence, as witnessed in the US.
Advertisement Footage from the first day of the protest, posted on X, showed students chanting: 'We are the people. We will not be silenced. Stop the bombing now, now, now.' 'We invite you to struggle with us. Join us in our library, in our study space, in our peaceful protest, in our call for Oxford to sever its institutional relationships that facilitate the genocide and occupation of the Palestinian people.'
More than 100 dons have backed the encampment. In an open letter, 108 lecturers, faculty members and researchers said they stood 'firmly in support' of the students who had set up the encampment.A spokesperson at Oxford University told MailOnline there is 'no place for intolerance' and the protest must be carried out with 'respect, courtesy and empathy'.
In Cambridge a food station, tent to make placards and banners, makeshift toilet were set up in the encampment, which currently holds around 30 tents. Advertisement It claimed: 'Cambridge University has over $46 million in defense industry partnerships, contributing to the manufacture of weapons that Israel has used to kill over 40,000 Palestinians, 40 per cent of whom are children, and to destroy every university in Gaza.'
Last week saw students at Russell Group universities including Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Sheffield and Newcastle, pitch tents and erect anti-Israel signs as they called for an end to military action in the Gaza strip. Jewish community leaders have urged universities to shut down encampments over fears Jewish students may be 'harassed and excluded'.
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