The pro-Palestinian protests inflaming university campuses in the US have crossed the Atlantic. Students at Cambridge and Oxford have set up “liberation zone” camps of their own, and more are appearing at universities across the UK. So far, the protests have been largely peaceful and, compared with their American counterparts, small.
One of the primary demands of the American protesters – that their university not invest in companies that manufacture weapons – has already been met by many British institutions, but protesters in the UK are still urging greater transparency. The Oxford activists are also calling for disinvestment from any company “complicit in Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation of Palestine”, the severing of all academic ties with Israeli universities, and that the university pays to help rebuild higher education in Palestine.
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