Cambridge's Palestine vandals must be expelled

Frustrated by a High Court injunction that prohibits protestors from occupying University buildings in Cambridge so as to block a degree ceremony on 1 March, ‘Palestine Action’ has resorted to violence (for that is what it is) to make its point.

The fifteenth-century gateway to the Old Schools, the administrative headquarters of the University, has been sprayed with red paint, and the slogan ‘Divest’ has been written in red on the adjoining walls.

The very fact that these activists campaign to ‘divest’ illustrates their hypocrisy

One might have thought that they would want to stand back, even celebrate, the fact that the judge only granted an injunction for a single degree ceremony, since (oddly) he wanted to go away and think about the University’s request for a five-year ban on the occupation of its premises by protesters. But at least proud parents have been saved from the disappointment of missing the traditional degree ceremony, conducted with unique solemnity and style in the Senate House.