The University of Oxford is a university in England that has been ranked the best in the world for 9 years in a row. Here is a picture of the campus.
In the early part of the nineteenth century, student members of the University of Oxford were restricted in the matters they could discuss and the opinions they could air. Tired of the curtailment of their freedom of speech, twenty five young men met near the end of 1822 and established a set of Rules that would govern a new Society and in March 1823 the ‘United Debating Society’ was born. In 2024 they held a debate on whether Israel is an apartheid state guilty of genocide. In the video below an Israeli Arab, Yoseph Hadad argues that Israel is anything but. In the debate you can hear many close minded people interrupting and behaving in a boorish manner. This is not the behavior one would expect from students at a top university and raises the question of whether Oxford still is a top university.
One point that was not raised by Yoseph Hadad is the ethnic cleansing of Christians in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. While the Muslim population has been exploding the Christian population is only 10% of what it was. In Israel, the Christian population is increasing. Here you can hear Benjamin Netanyahu wishing Christians a Merry Christmas. You can hear Yoseph Hadad speak at the Oxford debating society below:
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