Overview

• Metropolitan Police arrested a 20-year-old at an Oxfordshire address on October 15 on suspicion of inciting racial hatred, and he remains in custody.
• Oxford University confirmed the student has been suspended by his college pending enquiries and reiterated its condemnation of language urging violence or racial hatred.
• The individual has been identified by multiple outlets as Samuel Williams, a Balliol College PPE undergraduate from Tunbridge Wells.
• Footage from the October 11 Palestine Coalition/PSC rally in central London shows him introducing a chant he said was “workshopped in Oxford” before leading, “Gaza, Gaza make us proud, put the Zios in the ground.”
• The Union of Jewish Students said it was horrified and called the rhetoric unacceptable, while Oxford noted the precise basis for the arrest has not yet been disclosed to the university.