Scandal is once again roiling the United Kingdom’s famed Oxford University. A private WhatsApp chat of 100 incoming philosophy, politics, and economics freshmen leaked last week. Its contents are a whopper. 

Oxford Union president Arwa Elrayess, the elected head of the university’s premier debating society, was caught defending the Oct. 7, 2023, atrocities committed by Hamas. Elrayess, the union’s first Palestinian president, rationalized the deliberate murder of 1,200 Israeli civilians and barbaric abuse of women and girls as a “proportional” response to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.