OXFORD - British students set up pro-Palestinian protest encampments on Oxford and Cambridge universities' historic campuses on a cloudy spring Monday, in a show of solidarity with their American peers.
The footage of protests in Britain was in stark contrast to the jarring scenes from the U.S. over the past couple of weeks, where riot police wielding batons and flash-bang grenades dispersed and arrested hundreds of protesters. The Columbia University protests in New York, which drew national attention, have inspired similar demonstrations at dozens of universities around the U.S. and elsewhere, with students calling for a ceasefire and demanding their schools divest from companies with ties to Israel.
By replicating the student protests in America,"we are showing a united force where we are united with them, we are united with Gaza and we are united with this movement all over the world," she added.