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Introducing Sam Williams, Formerly of Balliol College, Oxford

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Of all the Oxford colleges, Balliol is the most famous and, many think, has the most distinguished history. The classicist Benjamin Jowett, translator of Plato, was the celebrated head of Balliol beginning in the 1860s. A famous bit of doggerel about Jowett goes thus:

Here come I, my name is Jowett.
All there is to know I know it.
I am Master of this College,
What I don’t know isn’t knowledge!

Balliol graduates have held prominent positions in politics, including four prime ministers, senior cabinet ministers, and civil servants. So Sam Williams’s parents must have been very proud when he was admitted to Balliol, and now, no doubt, are horrified that their son, once a “swot” at secondary school, has been spending all his time neglecting his studies and instead taking part in endless pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel demonstrations. Still worse, Oxford has now suspended him, and he has been arrested to boot for encouraging racial hate and for incitement to murder.

More on Sam Williams can be found here: “Oxford student arrested after chanting ‘put Zios in the ground,’” by Poppy Wood and Tom McArdle, Telegraph, October 15, 2025:

A University of Oxford student has been arrested after he led chants for Gaza to “put the Zios in the ground”, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Metropolitan Police said it had arrested a 20-year-old man in the early hours of Wednesday as part of an investigation into a demonstration in central London last Saturday.

On Wednesday, The Telegraph revealed that Samuel Williams, a philosophy, politics and economics student at Balliol College, was suspended by the university over the chant, which repeated: “Gaza, Gaza make us proud, put the Zios in the ground.”

The Met Police has not confirmed whether Mr Williams is the arrested student.

A spokesman for the force said: “Officers investigating chants filmed at a Palestine Coalition demonstration in central London on Saturday, 11 October, have made an arrest. A 20-year-old man was arrested at an address in Oxfordshire on Wednesday Oct 15 on suspicion of inciting racial hatred. He remains in police custody.”…

He repeated the chant several times, using the word “Zio” as an abbreviation of “Zionists,” with several others around him joining in.

This is unambiguously a call to murder “Zios”— that is, Zionists. More than 90% of world Jewry consists of Zionists. Sam Williams’ little rhyming couplet is, therefore, an incitement to racial hatred and to murder Jews.

Mr. Williams, from placid Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where his fair-to-middling upper-middle-class family home is at the end of a comfortable cul-de-sac, is about to enter a world of woe. He is now being investigated by the police for incitement to murder. When the police conducted a search of his home, they found several rifles and ammunition, for which he has yet to offer an explanation. The police will have to charge him with “incitement to racial hatred” and “incitement to murder.” Oxford, in turn, will likely turn the temporary suspension of the baby gauleiter into a permanent one.

It’s going to be pleasant to see what Sam Williams will now almost certainly face. He will be booted out of Oxford, and who knows what other institution wants to court conceivable trouble by admitting him. He may face a year of prison, or possibly even more — a salutary lesson for others in Britain who may be thinking of marching around wishing death on Israelis, or on Jews. A criminal record won’t endear him to potential employers. And wherever he applies, whether for admission to another university or for a job, one internet search will reveal his unpleasant past and put the kibosh on his plans. Williams should have thought that out ahead of time. But thinking is not his strong suit.

Comments

  1. He’s a fool but so are so many others including the clowns yesterday in America that participated in the “No Kings” protest which should have been called the “No Brains” protest. And here is an on point article about that event: Oh yeah, fools aplenty, including very malicious fools, abound and they are almost all on the Left, thus demonstrating yet again that Leftism is a mental deficiency if not a downright mental illness.

    https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2025/10/19/results-of-no-kings-rallies-participation-trophies-for-everyone-n2195239

  2. After university in the U.S., a close relative of mine attended Balliol for two years, and received his second B.A. I showed him the news about Sam Williams, quondam student at Balliol, and he was not horrified, but …disappointed.

        • Okay, but usually, High fills the 10:00, 2:00 and 4:00pm EST slots, and also covers academia and/or Jews/Israel. Looks like this one was different?

        • Infidel, I agree that Robert and Hugh often have stories they tend to cover–but they both are not limited to certain topics.

  3. Calling for murder.

    For some reason this makes me think of “Rikki Tikki Tavi.” Nag and the other snake were after the little baby.
    And the ‘no kings’ idiots are all for the dam mani. He’ll be so much worse than any king might.
    And others…like the student…are working both for the terrorists in the ME, Canada and NYC.

    muzzies care only about themselves. pakistan is forcing afghans….other muzzies….to leave the country.
    hamas is killing fellow muzzies.
    And people like this “student” giving their all for terrorism. It won’t keep them….any of them…safe.

  5. Introducing Sam Williams, Formerly of Balliol College, Oxford
    ………………………………………….

    Illiterate barbarian.

    My husband was an exchange student at Oriel College at Oxford for a semester from the University of Georgia back in the 1980s–saner times.

  6. I earned a master’s in international relations in 81 at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. This Jew found little anti-Semitism. In fact, the undergraduate president was openly Jewish and a member of the Jewish society. Oh, how Britain has changed and not for the better. Still, in the late 70s, there was a strong anti-Israel undercurrent. It was a fundamental principle for the left. That has not changed. But there was no fear of free speech then. Too bad. Mark

  8. Product of a totally corrupted educational system. Just like most systems and services in the UK now.

    Combine that with some people’s desperate need for attention and approval, this is the result.

    And there are much worse than this clown.

  9. Typical pseudo-intellectual “useful idiots” that don’t have a clue that their final destination will literally have their heads on the chopping block with chants of “Allahu Akbar” in the background. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

    • Exactly.

      When Muslims take more control, why would they trust those who would stupidly betray their own country?

      Useful idiots are disposable.

      • Keys,
        Your comment makes me think of those women who date a married man who they know has murdered his wife in order to get insurance money and then marries him.
        How can the mistress not realize what may be in her future with a murderer?

        I keep asking, “What is wrong with people?” How can so many be so stupid and support evil in so many instances?

        • Thank you for your reply, somehistory.

          Your comparison is a disturbing, yet excellent metaphor!

          Maybe “leftists” could better understand parables and metaphors instead of reality.

          Oh well, maybe not – for lots of reasons: willful ignorance, hidden agendas, monetary benefits, mental illness, spite, hate, ingratitude, coercion, and certainly just plain stupidity.

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