Oxford and Cambridge students launch pro-Palestinian occupation of university lawns

Oxford and Cambridge students have begun occupying lawns with pro-Palestinian camps in an echo of protests that have swept the US. Tents sprang up outside the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum on Monday morning, which the organisers claimed was “a disturbing hoard of artefacts stolen from colonised peoples across the world”. On the lawn of King’s College at the University of Cambridge, students said they had set up an encampment because the University “supports Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza”. #cambridge #oxford #palestine Read more here: Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now: Get the latest headlines: .