The venerable Oxford debating society has fallen to the barbarians

Tommy Robinson holds what used to be common-sense principles: the United Kingdom is historically a Christian, Anglo-Saxon-Celtic nation, with a liberty-based history, and it should be protected from a government-sanctioned invasion by people who hate Christianity, the UK’s Anglo-Saxon-Celtic heritage, and freedom. He also contends that people who violate the UK’s laws, even if they’re Britain’s hostile new citizens, should face legal consequences.

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For espousing these views, Robinson faces endless government persecution and receives routine death threats. The most recent death threat, made openly and smugly, came from the “Palestinian,” Muslim head of the venerable Oxford Union Society (“OUS”), more colloquially known as the “Oxford debating society”.

The University of Oxford, a collection of 43 separate colleges, was established 930 years ago as an institution to further Catholic education in England. That remained its central purpose for several centuries. When the Protestant Reformation arrived, its raison d’être shifted to furthering the Church of England. Along the way, it added such Western cultural pursuits as science, literature, history, philosophy, etc.

The list of notable alumni, given its 900-plus-year history, is truly too long to recite, and the Wikipedia entry doesn’t even try. ChatGPT gave it a valiant effort, which you can check out here. It is not an understatement to say that Oxford played a significant role in creating the modern West.

It would be unfortunate if Oxford continued playing a significant role in the West. Myriad stories in recent years (which, again, I asked ChatGPT to collate) show Oxford waging an intellectual war against the West, all in the name of “decolonization.” What’s new is that the president of the OUS seems determined to take that war from an intellectual effort into a real war, complete with bloodshed.

The OUS was founded in 1823 as The United Debating Society, with its first debate examining whether the English Revolution under Cromwell resulted from Charles I’s tyranny or from “the democratic spirit of the times.” As the subject matter suggests, it was a British-oriented society, and so it remained for almost two centuries. Its officer lists, to the extent they’re available from 1950 onward, had decidedly British names. That’s no longer the case, but before I get there, you need to see what Arwa Hanin Elrayess, the most recent OUS president, said to Tommy Robinson in a newly released video recording this past spring:

Perhaps tonight’s motion is less about the West’s relationship with Islam and more about yours. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known to his hooligans as Tommy Robinson. Stephen, there is a crowd outside rioting against you tonight, and without the protection and generosity of a Muslim Palestinian president and a mostly South Asian executive committee, you would be quite literally cooked.

In other words, you, Tommy Robinson, a citizen of Great Britain, are currently alive at this moment only because I, your Muslim overlord, am allowing you to live. Lots of people have commented on this shocking statement, and you can see some of the comments here.

But what interested me is Elrayess’s statement about the people running the venerable OUS. Here’s what I learned, with thanks to ChatGPT for identifying the probable historic ethnic/national origins of these people’s last names. The officers are:

• Arwa Hanin Elrayess – Arab/Muslim
• Prajwal Pandey – Indian or Nepali
• Catherine Xu – Chinese
• Harry Aldridge – British

The standing committee members are:

• Dheeraj K. “DK” Singh – Indian
• Milo Donovan – Irish
• Vishnu Vadlamani – Indian
• Oliver Douglas – British
• Claire Yun Luo – Chinese
• Ben Ashworth – British

And the secretary’s committee members are:

• Henry Nicholls – British
• Fadel Semane – Arab/Muslim
• Saara Lunawat – Indian
• Matteo Brunel – French or Italian
• Toby Bowes Lyon – British
• Euan Willis – British
• Adil Rahoo – Pakistani
• Shahmir Aziz – Pakistani
• Ea Ventura Marty – French
• Daniel Ratajczyk – Polish
• Santiago Vazquez – Hispanic (Spain or Latin America)

Out of 21 people associated with the OUS, only seven have ethnic roots in the UK (counting the Irish man). Most, as Elrayess said, come from Southeast Asia and have no genetic or emotional connection to the UK. Moreover, as Elrayess explicitly stated, those who support a traditional Great Britain are there on sufferance, allowed to live only if they support the new ruling class.

Right before WWII, Vera Lynn sang that jaunty tune, “There’ll always be an England.”

Boy, was she wrong. Once the leftists got their talons in, England died as surely as it would have had the Nazis won WWII. And of course, the great irony is that the new UK leadership aligns perfectly with the Nazis, for it is a socialist tyranny that is anti-Western, anti-Christian, and antisemitic.

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