Oxford students follow their Harvard peers and blame Israel for all the violence - IndiaTimes

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LONDON: Student groups at Oxford University have issued a joint statement saying “Israeli-settler-colonial occupation and apartheid” is the root cause of the ongoing violence, reflecting a joint statement by 33 student societies at Harvard University, which blamed Israel for the Hamas attack on Israel.
The Oxford statement, signed by 14 groups, including Oxford Palestine Society, Oxford South Asian Society, and the Oxford South Asian Ambedkar Forum, said: “This continuous harm is rooted in the tragedies of illegal occupation, human rights abuses and apartheid that have existed since the onset of the Nakba in 1948. We call for an immediate end to Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. The events of the past several days did not take place in a vacuum: rather they are the result of Palestinians’ long-brewing and well-founded anger in response to Israel forcing them to live in an open-air prison for decades. Every nation that has declared support for Israel is complicit in its genocidal campaign.”

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A University of Oxford spokesperson said: “Oxford University’s primary focus is the health and well-being of staff and students impacted by the terrible events in Israel and Gaza, and it has written directly to those affected to offer welfare and other types of support.”
Student societies must be registered with the Proctors’ Office to use the name “Oxford University”. Notall the societies which have signed this statement have done so.
The Harvard statement, put out on the same day that Hamas launched its attack on Israel, held “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence”. Neither statement criticised Hamas. The Harvard one sparked a huge backlash in the US, with business leaders demanding to see the names of the students who signed it. Harvard University president Claudine Gay had to issue a statement distancing herself from their statement.
In a speech at the SNP conference in Aberdeen on Sunday, Scotland First Minister Humza Yousaf’s wife, Nadia El-Nakla, described the situation in Gaza as “unimaginable horror” and pleaded with world leaders to “strive for peace over war”.

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El-Nakla’s Palestinian father, Maged, and Scottish mother, Elizabeth, are currently trapped in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, with no electricity or water, and food running out. They had gone there to visit family.
El-Nakla said people were sleeping outsideon football pitches having bombs dropped on them and they were using ice cream trucks for dead bodies. Her brother, an ER doctor, told her hospitals were starting to be unable to treat patients owing to no supplies. “Families are having to say goodbye to each other as if it is the last time. Every person in Gaza is waiting to die,” she said. “Give the children of Gaza a chance of life.”
Yousaf told the BBC that Israel is “going too far” and “collective punishment cannot be justified” as many of the people in Gaza “have nothing to do with Hamas”.
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