Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree”
Students with links to Oxford University have mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and tried to silence others who did not agree, it’s been reported. The Mail has more.
A series of new messages, revealed in the Spectator, allegedly show that students took part in celebrating the conservative US influencer’s death.
Those who did not agree claim they were “intimidated into silence”, it was reported.
In WhatsApp groups for incoming and current students wanting to join the debating society, one reportedly said Mr Kirk is “looking up at us now” with a smiley face emoji, implying he had gone to hell.
Another member of the group was said to have declared that they did not “feel bad” for his grieving widow, Erika Kirk.
One student allegedly shared their support for political violence writing they could “only hope that some of the more cowardly f*****s get scsred (sic)”.
The Oxford Union has faced growing backlash after its incoming president, George Abaraonye, 20, made vitriolic comments celebrating Kirk’s assassination.
In one WhatsApp chat to fellow students Mr Abaraonye wrote “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s f****** go”.
He has since deleted the messages and apologised, saying that his words, “were no less insensitive than Charlie Kirk’s”.
One source is said to have likened the shocking student group chat with a “lynch mob against any conservative thought”, adding that they are considering cancelling their Union membership as a result.
Others also told the publication of their fears regarding personal safety if their identity were to be revealed given the shocking nature of the messages shared.
Following Mr Abaraonye’s comments, prestigious speakers have cancelled their forthcoming appearances at the historic debating society in protest.
Last week, millionaire entrepreneur Josh Wolfe, co-founder of New York venture capitalists Lux Capital, pulled out of an invitation to speak at the Oxford Union.
He wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “I was invited to speak on tech and VC [venture capitalism] at the Oxford Union, a historically prestigious venue dating to 1823.
“I have withdrawn and declined.”
Mr Wolfe said he would stay away “until cultural leadership from the top celebrates peace and coexistence and civil discourse and denounces violence”.
The Oxford Union itself – under its outgoing leadership – condemned its own incoming president, a post previously held by the likes of Boris Johnson and Tony Blair.
In an unprecedented move, the union said it “would like to unequivocally condemn the reported words and sentiments expressed by the President-Elect. His reported views do not represent the Oxford Union’s current leadership or committee’s view.”
Although the Union clarified that it “does not possess executive powers to summarily dismiss a president-elect”, it confirmed that the complaints filed against Mr Abaraonye have been “forwarded for disciplinary proceedings and will be addressed with the utmost seriousness”.
It added that its current leadership had “no association with, and is entirely independent from” Mr Abaraonye, and shared its condolences with Kirk’s family.
Worth reading in full.
John Power’s article for the Spectator adds further detail about the intimidation of group members:
I’ve seen messages from two group chats created for incoming Oxford students, including one dedicated to those who have expressed an interest in joining the Union when the academic term begins on October 12th.
One incoming student who questioned Abaraonye’s conduct was told that he needed to “learn to shut the fuck up because someone will teach you”. A member of the group chat joked about killing the student’s mother; another said that he deserved to have his phone number leaked. When he argued against the murdering of political opponents, he was told to take his “defences of racism” out of the chat.
Other members of the group made disgraceful comments. One said that Kirk would be “looking up at us”, implying he would be in hell. Another compared him to Hitler. One said that they did not “feel bad” for his widow. Many explicitly endorsed political violence. One said: “I can only hope that some of the more cowardly fuckers get scsred [sic].” Another said it’s “sadly optimistic to believe that we will ever achieve our ends through merely kind gesturing and begging nicely”. One member mentioned how they would celebrate the death of Tommy Robinson.
Some of the sources I spoke to inside the group chats were frightened about their safety if their identity was unmasked by fellow students. One said that if they were killed like Kirk, they would expect the other students to gloat about it in the same way.
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I suspect there will be convoys of thought police arresting the participants of the WhatsApp group over the next few hours. Or perhaps not!
Fascists being arrested for hate speech….now there is a novel idea….
The Far-Left is completely out of control, has no moral compass and no sense of propriety.
They just know Hate, but are the ones pushing for Hate Speech laws.
Despicable hypocrites.
If you don’t walk around with “Whatsapp” on your phone, can you plead ignorance?. There are millions of us that are not on Tik Tok, Whatsap, Discord, Reddit, and whatever else is out there.
Me neither.
Reddit has its uses. Here you will find the fine Lockdown Sceptics group https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSceptics/ which still has a few of the original members who quit this site when it was still called Lockdown Sceptics, at the point where the daily comments page was shut down and described by our host as a “toxic swamp”. There is a daily comments thread which usually has some interesting stuff in it.
On Reddit generally I think if you stick to groups that suit you it’s fine. I used the “Ask a plumber” group for advice the other day and they were very helpful.
This! Absolutely agree with TOF here. Reddit can be a good source of advice for all sorts of specialist hobbies and topics.
Straying onto the more general groups (or sub Reddits) such as for example “Casual UK” is enlightening and not in a good way. Very left-leaning (even Far Left) youngish people, many of them either not working, still at school or those who having completed a nonsensical degree at ‘Uni’ have found themselves in very low level jobs.
These people, often with anxieties about nothing at all, are very, very lacking in common sense or awareness of how the world works. They take to Reddit to ask questions that a 10 y/o should know. Yet having paraded their ignorance in public they happily recite opinions on Trump, Reform, etc etc as if they were political analysts.
Having said all that I would recommend DS commenters to take a look, because it definitely shocked me and altered my views on what we are up against from our fellow citizens
Thanks.
Do feel free to drop in to the LS subgroup linked in my original post – new commenters always welcome, freedom of speech is respected (except sometimes by the Reddit bots but the LS mods do get notified and let people know when posts disappear).
The LS subgroup is maybe a bit further towards scepticism and less towards anti-leftism than DS, more anti-Israel, more “conspiracy minded”, but the debate is usually pretty civil. Like DS, it’s about a lot more than “covid”.
Oxbridge & Co, places historically associated with learning and free thought, Today it is the opposite, so changes the name to mean another, menos est omen.
My mother’s advice to me as a child, many, many years ago was stay away from bullies – and don’t come running to me if you don’t and they turn on you.
My teacher at primary school many, many years ago used to say: Show me your friends and I’ll tell you what you are like.
Those who join WhatsApp groups, which is voluntary, beware of bullies and with whom you associate… otherwise you deserve all you get.
My father’s advice regarding bullies was to face them down. It didn’t matter if you took a few punches – they wouldn’t be back. And he was right.
Wow, a formerly august seat of learning now absolutely poisoned and compromised by vile ideologies. Expunging this stain will take years.
Looks like the Oxford Union proves that turds float to the top with Blair and Johnson in their history.
All rather Lord of the Flies
People are being imprisoned for intemperate objections to the killing and injuring of innocent children and others. These post are celebrating the killing of an innocent man and there is no response from law enforcement. An explanation is in order.
“Although the Union clarified that it “does not possess executive powers to summarily dismiss a president-elect”…”
Really?
Maybe they would need to have another vote. I would love to see the results of that, to see if it had woken any of them up
How could the Oxford Union stoop so low as to choose an Ethnic African so slovenly that he turns up at debates wearing pyjama bottoms and a T-shirt, while shuffling up to the podium in his slippers, like some Rastafarian drug addict?
What kind of representative will he be, as President of such a venerable, respected institution?
Those who elected him ought to be ashamed.
He’s gloating over Charlie’s death because Charlie wiped the floor with him at the debate. Is this what the Oxford Union now condones?
Beats the hell out of me
Based on his grades, he shouldn’t even be at the University.
DEI: Didn’t Earn It.
This!
“One student allegedly shared their support for political violence…” Would probably wet themselves if their mobile packed in.
My thoughts exactly
It is the case that Jewish students are now under an anti semitic chill factor in Oxford now, the fundamentalism of Woke has spread like a fungus into the student mind.
At the same time, Starmer and his bosom friend Lord Ali are scheming on news laws (as if there weren’t enough already) to control the AI generated crime of Islamophobia, totally ignoring the daily attacks on Jews and their homes, mostly in London, by fanatical Muslims.
And yet Starmer was converted to Judaism by his Jewish wife, and they are raising their children to be Jewish.
I was at university briefly in the early 80s – most students were pretty left wing even then, not so sure about the lecturers and professors- I guess today’s lecturers and professors are the left wing students I was at university with.
What utter wankers, BUT a private WhatsApp group should be private, I personally do not agree with pearl clutching commentary about what one commie dickhead said to another in a private space keyword: private.
Weren’t four police officers kicked out of the force for sharing private messages in their own time, off-duty?
Indeed but that was not right either
There’s a shocking new video of the “real” shooter using a Palm Gun, sent to Heroic Canadian Jewish Henry Makow by a reader, but because we in the UK are now blocked from BitChute, we can’t watch it. But here’s a screen capture he provided, with the reader’s description of this photo:
“The second video shows a repetitive loop of the shooter highlighted in the center, to show how he uses his left arm, holding onto the barrier fence, to steady his shot. The sunglasses probably have high tech sighting and possibly aiming functions that coordinates with his positioning of the palm gun in his right hand (with the barrel protruding slightly between his first and second fingers).” [Or rather his second and third fingers, it looks like to me…]
“The Protector Palm Pistol is a small revolver designed to be concealed in the palm of the hand. It was unique in that the revolver was clasped in a fist with the barrel protruding between two fingers and the entire handgun was squeezed in order to fire a round. The design was meant to resemble a pocket watch to the extent of being carried on a chain.”
“The Protector Palm Pistol was first patented and built in France in 1882 by Jacques Turbiaux and sold as the “Turbiaux Le Protector” or the “Turbiaux Disc Pistol”. Later in 1883 it was built in the USA as The Protector by the Minneapolis Firearms Co.”
That may explain why there was only one shot from the supposed assassin Tyler Robinson on the distant roof, in contrast to the ?seven shots fired at Trump.
Palm Pistols can only fire one shot.
While the Oxford Union may not have the powers to dismiss a president-elect surely the university itself can remove him from its premises. If prestigious speakers are cancelling their invitations to speak at the Union then surely this is a blow to the prestige of the univesrity itself. Which respectable organisation would want such an unpleasant individual in such a high profile position? If more institutions banned these people from their premises then perhaps a return to civilised behaviour might ensue. If they are so keen to cancel other people why don’t the appropriate authorities cancel them.
I am now in my 90th decade and have become appalled at the growing intolerance that is permeating daily life.
If you’re inclined to write to the Oxford Union to express your views, as I have, the email address is enquiries@oxford-union.org
These leftists students who are so mouthy, are little more than foul mouthed thugs!
That’s not what we should expect ‘educated’ people to be like! It’s enough to put you off wanting to go to university, if that’s the type of people you’re going to have to mix with!
All the decent members of the Oxford Union should resign. Who on earth would want to be associated with these uncivilised, lefty thugs.
(But they won’t).
Filthy communists. Nazis. Vile people. Throw them out of university.
While it shouldn’t be anybody’s concern what students say to other studends in a private chat, someone should really tell these people that they aren’t living in the USA and that there’s no reason why US domestic affairs should concern them. Donald Trump is president of the USA and not of the world and only US citizens can vote for or against him.
It is very much their concern. Remember that the Oxford Union invites people from all over the world to speak or to participate in debates, and they invited Charlie Kirk in May 2025 to debate the Unwashed Nigerian Nitwit they chose to represent them as their incoming “President”. See the photo in this article:
Oxford Union suffers growing backlash after president-elect accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination – after pair came head-to-head in debate weeks ago | Daily Mail Online
It’s fairly easy to find “Kirk at Oxford” on youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnqSNEiLTeY
I watched 12 minutes of that which were solely about some woman questioning him about issues of US domestic policies he was cogently replying to. Then, I stopped because who is granted asylum in the USA or if abortion is legal or illegal in the USA or if the USA should have birthright citizenship and what should be done with people who immigrated illegally into the USA is simply no concern of mine because I’m neither an American nor living in the USA.
I’m also not inclined to celebrate the people who kept my grandfather in one of their infamous disarmed enemy combattants¹ camps which probably contributed to his early death at about 50 after surviving six years of fighting a war for their “positive masculinity” as Kirk does in the opening sentences of the video.
¹ A category which was specficially invented to avoid having to treat German soliders as prisoners of war according to the Geneva convention after the German surrender in 1945.