Laurence Dauti

Laurence Dauti is a student at Oxford

Oxford has had enough of its Gaza protests

The ceasefire in Gaza may be holding, but student activists aren’t happy. Yesterday, ten students from the Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P) protest group stormed the Radcliffe Camera, the eighteenth century library, ‘occupied’ it and founded the ‘Khalida Jarrar Library’ named after a Palestinian activist and one of the 90 freed as part of the ceasefire

Students from the Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P) protest group occupying the Radcliffe Camera on Friday.

Rain is the biggest problem for Oxford’s Free Gaza protestors

Oxford students, like others, are protesting about Palestine, but not so much when it rains. There’s an encampment outside the Pitt Rivers museum and once the rain starts the protesters in tents disappear inside them and the others disappear indoors. But when the sun is out, they re-emerge, though not if it’s too early. Welcome to