Palestine Action daubs University of Cambridge’s Old Schools building in blood-red paint

Palestine Action targeted The Old Schools building – identified as the office that manages the University’s Endowment Fund – today (4 March), daubing the listed building in blood-red paint.

The action in the early hours by “a group of autonomous students” follows a similar protest at Oxford University last week, as part of “a growing wave of confrontational actions at the UK’s most prestigious universities”.

The Palestine Action group is the same group that threw paint at the Lord Balfour painting in Trinity College last year. The activists are demanding full disclosure of the university’s investments in arms-related companies and immediate divestment from those supplying arms and/or munitions to the Israeli regime.

“Each life lost in Palestine is a human being with dreams, loved ones, and a future stolen,” said a Palestine Action spokesperson.

“As long as the university continues to profit from violence, we will continue to take action in solidarity with Palestinians who endure daily oppression and destruction.”

A University of Cambridge spokesperson said: “We strongly condemn this vandalism of university property. The police have been informed.”