‘Gaza, Gaza, make us proud, put the Zios in the ground’, Oxford student Samuel Williams appeared to chant at a central London pro-Palestine demonstration last Saturday, footage of which has since gone viral on social media.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a 20-year-old man presumed to be Williams (although this remains unconfirmed by the police) was arrested in Oxfordshire by the Metropolitan Police for stirring up racial hatred and held in custody. He was also suspended from Oxford University.

That we are having this conversation at all shows the grim extent of speech restrictions Brits currently suffer under

Since this is now a live case, there is a limit to what can be said, but one can of course see why the behaviour of pro-Palestine protestors has provoked outrage since

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