Oxford Faculty on the Action for Palestine Solidarity Encampment

ACTIVISM, 13 May 2024

University of Oxford Faculty & Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service

6 May 2024 – As members of faculty and staff of the University of Oxford, we stand firmly in support of the members of the university community who have begun an encampment outside the Pitt Rivers Museum to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as well as from Israel’s ongoing apartheid regime against Palestinians and its settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Our students have demanded that the university call for an unconditional and immediate ceasefire, condemn the destruction of all of Gaza’s universities by Israel’s bombardment in the last six months, and commit concrete resources both to support Palestinian scholars’ education and to rebuild Gaza’s destroyed institutions of higher education. These sentiments have also been echoed in statements that members of Oxford’s community have initiated or signed, particularly the letter from the Scholars for Palestine group, which is led by Palestinian scholars in the UK.

The present situation in Gaza is catastrophic; the International Court of Justice has characterised it as plausibly amounting to genocide. We consider our students’ demands entirely reasonable given the University of Oxford’s commitment to global leadership in education and to furthering educational opportunities internationally. The University has called for the release of the Israeli hostages and for an end to the ongoing violence in Gaza. We further call for the release of Palestinian prisoners held under administrative detention in Israeli prisons, many of them arrested as children. We also ask the University itself to take a number of other urgent measures.

Currently, Oxford holds a policy of no direct investment in arms. We join our students in asking that the university review its ethical investment policy to explicitly restrict all investment – direct or indirect – in arms, weapons, and other instruments of war. To this end, we ask that the University instruct Oxford University Endowment Management to make available the granular detail of any investment in portfolios that may include arms investment, or investment in other instruments of war such as warplanes, so that we can have an open discussion on this issue with all the facts in hand. We also ask that the Vice Chancellor unequivocally condemn the killing of over a hundred university professors and Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s educational institutions and archives. Finally, we ask that the university immediately commit resources to (a) creating opportunities for Palestinian scholars to access library resources and educational support online so that they can continue their learning and to (b) rebuilding Gaza’s universities.

We see the encampment in solidarity with Gaza, in the words of Professor David Ludden, as “a public-facing global education project”. We hope that the university’s leadership will treat this political expression as the opportunity for dialogue that it is.

This is a statement from the undersigned faculty and staff at the University of Oxford, and does not set out to represent the views of the participants of the encampment. 

Faculty and staff of the University of Oxford who would like to sign can do so HERE.

1. Walter Armbrust, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
2. Robert Gildea, Emeritus Professor of Modern History
3. Karma Nabulsi, Professor Emerita and Senior Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall
4. Sudhir Hazareesingh, Fellow in Politics, Balliol College
5. Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College and former Professor of International Relations
6. Neta C Crawford, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and Fellow of the British Academy
7. Arathi Sriprakash, Professor of Sociology and Education
8. James McDougall, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
9. Wes Williams, Professor of French
10. Patricia Owens, Professor of International Relations
11. Nikita Sud, Professor of the Politics of Development, Oxford Department of International Development and Wolfson College
12. Bernard Sufrin, Emeritus Fellow, Worcester College and Department of Computer Science
13. Marilyn Booth, Emerita Khalid Bin Abdallah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
14. Pablo Mukherjee, Professor of Anglophone World-Literature, Faculty of English
15. Sneha Krishnan, Associate Professor in Human Geography
16. Dario Carugo, Associate Professor, Medical Sciences Division
17. Debbie Hopkins, Associate Professor in Human Geography
18. Sophie Smith, Associate Professor of Political Theory
19. Meera Sabaratnam, Associate Professor of International Relations
20. Jeanne Morefield, Associate Professor of Political Theory
21. Nayanika Mathur, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
22. Katherine Ibbett, Professor of French
23. Amia Srinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory
24. Daniela Dover, Associate Professor of Philosophy
25. Kate Tunstall, Professor of French
26. Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History
27. Jocelyn Alexander, Professor of Commonwealth Studies
28. Simukai Chigudu, Associate Professor of African Politics
29. Maryam Alamzadeh, Associate Professor, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
30. Raihan Ismail, His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
31. Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies
32. Paul Dresch, Emeritus Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford
33. Morgan Clarke, Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
34. Roxana Banu, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall and the Faculty of Law
35. Leila Ullrich, Associate Professor of Criminology
36. Stuart White, Associate Professor in Politics
37. Chihab El Khachab, Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
38. Ian Klinke, Associate Professor in Human Geography
39. Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Comparative Literature
40. Amanda Power, Associate Professor of Medieval History
41. Jeremy Johns, Emeritus Professor of the Art and Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean
42. Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography
43. Dr Helen Salisbury, Senior Medical Education Fellow, Nuffield Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences
44. Zeynep Yurekli, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
45. Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography
46. Federica Genovese, Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Fellow at St Antony’s
47. Alain George, I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
48. Naomi Waltham-Smith, Professor of Music and Douglas Algar Tutorial Fellow, Merton College
49. Heath Rose, Professor of Applied Linguistics
50. Mohamed-Salah Omri, Professor, Faculty of Asian and Middle East Studies
51. Laura Fortunato, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Human Sciences & Magdalen College
52. Asli Niyazioglu, Associate Professor of Ottoman History
53. Thomas Puschel Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology
54. Jennifer Lauren Martin, Senior Tutor, Ruskin School of Art
55. Madhavi Krishnan, Professor of Physical Chemistry
56. Emily Jones, Associate Professor, Blavatnik School of Government
57. Katharine Burn, Associate Professor of Education
58. Shankar Srinivas, Professor of Developmental Biology
59. Mina Fazel, Professor of Adolescent Psychiatry
60. Laura Stevens, Associate Professor of Climate, Department of Earth Sciences
61. Patricia Thornton, Associate Professor in Politics
62. Tim Schwanen, Professor of Transport Geography, Transport Studies Unit
63. Reuben Binns, Associate Professor, Computer Science
64. Rachel Murphy, Professor of Chinese Development and Society
65. Maria Midra, Professor of Global History
66. Filippo de Vivo, Professor of Early Modern History
67. Laura Ashe, Professor of English Literature
68. David Chivall, School of Archaeology
69. Amogh Dhar Sharma, Departmental Lecturer, Oxford Department of International Development
70. Ana Valdivia, Departmental Research Lecturer in AI, Government and Policy, Oxford Internet Institute
71. Dylan Carver, Departmental Lecturer in English
72. Alexis McGivern, Net Zero Standards Manager, School of Geography and the Environment
73. Catherine Sloan, Hertford College
74. Henry Clements, Faculty of History
75. Aliya Khalid, Senior Departmental Lecturer in Comparative and International Education
76. Sara Hijazi, Blaschko Fellow, Department of Pharmacology
77. Hashem Abushama, Departmental Lecturer, School of Geography and the Environment
78. Jack Doyle, Faculty of History
79. Mobeen Hussain, Junior Research Fellow, University College
80. Ankita Pandey, Departmental Lecturer, Modern South Asian Studies
81. Rowan Wilson, DPhil Student and Tutor, English Faculty
82. Emily Dyson, DPIR Political Theory DPhil and Graduate Teaching Assistant
83. Carina Uchida, DPhil Candidate and Tutor, Department of Politics and International Relations
84. Kaya Axelsson, Head of Policy and Partnerships, Oxford Net Zero, School of Geography and the Environment
85. Nicola Stevens, Trapnell Research Fellow in African Environments, Environmental Change Institute
86. Camilla Hyslop, Net Zero Tracker Data Lead, Oxford Net Zero, School of Geography and the Environment
87. Matilda Becker, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Oxford Net Zero, School of Geography and the Environment
88. Rebecca Berrens, Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, Department of Pediatrics
89. Samira Barzin, Senior Researcher, Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment Change Institute
90. Kaveri Medappa, Postdoctoral Researcher in Human Geography, Department of Continuing Education
91. Kerry-Anne Grey, Project Assistant to the Ecosystems Lab, ECI, SoGE
92. Orlando Lazar, Early Career Research and Teaching Fellow in Politics, St Edmund Hall
93. Michael Mayo, Worcester College
94. Amber Murrey, Associate Professor in Human Geography
95. Thiruni Kelegama, Departmental Lecturer in Modern South Asian Studies
96. Katherine Lebow, Associate Professor of History
97. Hugh Nankervis, Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology
98. Dorothee Boulanger, Career Development Fellow in Women’s and Gender Studies
99. Emma Bond, Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies
100. Ross Moncrieff, DPhil Student and Examination Fellow, All Souls College
101. Dr Pelagia Goulimari, Co-director, MSt in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
102. Alex Vasudevan, Associate Professor in Human Geography
103. Neeraj Shetye, Partnerships and Communications Manager, Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development
104. Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil, Early Career Fellow in Law, Somerville College
105. Thirza Wakefield, Rosemary Pountney Research Fellow, St Anne’s College
106. Alice Willatt, Research Fellow
107. Bee Jones, DPhil Candidate and Tutor
108. Marta Zboralska, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Ruskin School of Art
109. Jamie Linsley-Parrish DPhil Candidate and Research Assistant, School of Geography and the Environment
110. Simon Gilbert, Nuffield department of population health
111. Timothy LaRock, Postdoc; President of Oxford UCU
112. Daniella Lock, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law
113. Katie Higgins, Research Fellow
114. Ammar Azzouz, British Academy Research Fellow
115. Pratinav Anil, Lecturer in History at St Edmund Hall
116. Eve Ess, Departmental Lecturer, Ruskin School of Art
117. Raúl Zepeda Gil, Departamental Lecturer in Development Studies
118. Uttara Shahani, Departmental Lecturer
119. Catherine Phipps, Postdoctoral Associate Member
120. Nadia Jamil, Senior Researcher
121. Jade de Montserrat, Senior Ruskin Tutor
122. Katherine Paugh, Associate Professor, Department of History
123. Lucia Akard, College Lecturer in Medieval History, Oriel College, Oxford
124. Adrita Mitra, DPhil student and Tutor
125. Maryanne Saunders, Career Development Fellow
126. Anton Jäger, Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory
127. Gaurav Mittal, Researcher in Mobility Governance
128. Felicity Leary, Department of International Development
129. Lillian Fontaine, DPhil Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Stipendiary Lecturer
130. Mai Musie, Project Manager, TORCH
131. David Kampmann, Career Development Fellow, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, School of Geography and the Environment
132. Chambrez-Zita Zauchenberger, Clinical Researcher, Department of Psychiatry
133. Elly Walters, DPhil Candidate and Tutor
134. Laura Trajber Waisbich, Departmental Lecturer, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
135. Umme Hani Imani, Project Assistant
136. Sarah Duffy, DPhil Student and Lecturer in Economics
137. Gabrielle Beckley, Development and Data Officer
138. Helen Flatley Departmental Lecturer in Medieval History
139. Yasser Kureshi Departmental Lecturer
140. Denat Negatu, Research Assistant
141. Alexandra Hardwick, Stipendiary Lecturer in Classics, Corpus Christi College and Balliol College
142. Victoria Roskams, Faculty of English Language and Literature
143. Jessica Thompson, Postdoc, Experimental Psychology
144. Zeinab Azarbadegan, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
145. Umberto Bongianino, Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture
146. Helidah Ogude-Chambert, Lecturer, Migration & Development
147. Adrian Kreutz, Lecturer Philosophy of Social Science, Lincoln College
148. Yassamine Mather, Staff, Advanced Research Computing
149. Andonis Marden, Director of Refugee Scholarships and Partnerships
150. Ghazal Salehi, Programme Manager at the Department of International Development
151. Mar A Rodda, Career Development Fellow, Merton College
152. Daniel Cullen, Researcher, Centre for Criminology
153. Roba AlSalibi, Postdoctoral researcher
154. Rosalie Allain, Early Career Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology
155. Luisa Ostacchini, College Lecturer
156. Mori Reithmayr, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rothermere American Institute
157. Mihail Chiru, Departmental Lecturer in Politics
158. Urvi Khaitan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, History Faculty
159. Danica Sims, Senior lecturer
160. Joseph da Costa, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
161. Lia Brazil, Research fellow, Nuffield College
162. Neil Ketchley, Fellow of St Antony’s College
163. Ben Gowland, Departmental Lecturer, School of Geography and the Environment
164. Tinashe Mushakavanhu Junior Research Fellow
165. Elizabeth Murphy, University Administration Service
166. Alejandro Posada Tellez, DPhil candidate (St. Antony’s College) and Tutor in International Relations (Merton College and Jesus College)
167. Joe Boyle, Research and Teaching Assistant, School of Geography and the Environment
168. Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili DPhil Student and Tutor, English and French
169. Lucy Radford, Research Facilitator in Biology
170. Amal Chatterjee, Senior Course Tutor, MSt in Creative Writing
171. Faidra Faitaki, Departmental Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
172. Mathilde Pascal, Project Co-ordinator
173. Alison Roberts, Assistant Keeper for European Prehistory Collections, Ashmolean Museum
174. Eleanor Newman, DPhil student and tutor, Faculty of Classics
175. Alae Baha, Postdoctoral researcher
176. Jasper Friedrich, Teaching Associate, Blavatnik School of Government
177. Jad Moawad, Postdoctoral Researcher
178. Ana Castaño Arques, Senior Lecturer in Spanish
179. Josefina Jaureguiberry, DPhil Student and Tutor, School of Geography and the Environment
180. Madeline Reinecke, Postdoctoral Researcher
181. Tobias Hector, Postdoctoral Researcher
182. Anthony Calacino, Postdoctoral Researcher
183. Tessa Reardon, Research Fellow
184. Michael Sackur, DPhil Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant
185. Conrad Steel, Career Development Fellow, English
186. Anna Plyushteva, Departmental Research Lecturer
187. Miriam Driessen, Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology
188. Janet McKnight, IT Services
189. Heather Barr, Library Assistant, St Edmund Hall
190. Emily Stott Coordinator, Nature Positive Universities, Department of Biology
191. Caroline Jane Walsh, Communications Officer at the Department of Statistics
192. William Fleming, Research Fellow
193. Georgia Nasseh, Departmental Lecturer in Brazilian and African Portuguese
194. Minna Jeffery, Junior Research Fellow
195. Joseph Hankinson, Lecturer in English
196. Heather Saunders, Head of Outreach, Entrepreneurship Centre – Saïd Business School
197. Enrico Benassi, DPhil Student and Tutor
198. Tomoko Watanabe, Postdoctoral researcher
199. Freya Marshall Payne, History tutor and doctoral candidate in the Department of Education
200. Eleni Methymaki, DPhil in Law candidate and Tutor in international law, Faculty of Law
201. Murad Banaji, Departmental lecturer, Mathematics
202. Ed Penington, Researcher in Health Economics, Department of Psychiatry
203. Mirela Zaneva, Junior Research Fellow
204. Tsvetomira Dumbalska, Stipendiary lecturer and postdoctoral researcher
205. Benjamin Goodair, Postdoctoral researcher
206. Ruth Nyabuto, Academic Manager, Refugee-Led Research Hub
207. Susann Kassem, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
208. Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí, Senior Research Fellow, Blavatnik Schol of Government
209. Amalia Rusei, Marketing and Campaigns Manager, Blavatnik School of Government
210. Chloe Ellison, Research Assistant, Biology
211. Róisín Maire Taylor, Research and Evaluation Officer, DSPI

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