This is the moment Oxford students shriek with horror and complain that a security guard is being violent when he nudged past them as they blocked a door during graduation ceremonies in a Gaza ‘die-in’.
Furious members of the group Oxford Action for Palestine posted the video on social media on Saturday, accusing the member of staff of ‘slamming the door on the heads of students protesting the university’s complicity in genocide’.
However, instead of kicking the students, the video shows the member of staff gently prodding them with his foot as he tries to access a door that they are obstructing.
Around 30 students staged the ‘die-in’ protest outside the Sheldonian Theatre and Bodleian Library in the city centre yesterday morning while graduations took place.
Seperate pictures show graduands and their families having to step over the protesters as they attempted to leave the hall – with the group also alleging that members of…