{"id":644283,"date":"2026-06-17T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644283\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:10:10","slug":"protest-takes-place-over-oxford-union-tommy-robinson-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644283\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest takes place over Oxford Union Tommy Robinson debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A protest has taken place in opposition to Tommy Robinson&#8217;s involvement in a debate at the Oxford Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The far-right activist is taking part in a debate about Islam in the city on Wednesday. His invitation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce8pw08n5rgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sparked widespread condemnation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 19:30 BST about 200 protesters holding Stand Up to Racism placards stationed themselves at either end of St Michael&#8217;s Street where the event is taking place. Barriers were put in place, forcing some businesses to close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A separate, smaller group of protesters holding union flags were also present, with the groups separated by a line of police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A minor incident took place on Cornmarket Street in which protesters booed police officers, and a couple of demonstrators appeared to throw water at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A protest has taken place in opposition to Tommy Robinson&#8217;s involvement in a debate at the Oxford Union.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}