In the early hours of this morning, a group of autonomous students took direct action at Cambridge University in solidarity with Palestine. The action, carried out in collaboration with Palestine Action, involved painting the Old Schools building – the office that manages the University’s Endowment Fund – in blood-red paint.

This action follows a similar one at Oxford University last week [1], as part of a growing wave of confrontational actions at the UK’s most prestigious universities, to hold them accountable for their financial support of systems of violence and oppression. While Cambridge University continues to conduct research partnerships with Israeli institutes [2], its constituent colleges invest heavily in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company. The protestors demand immediate divestment from companies complicit in war crimes and the Israeli apartheid regime