Speaking in support of the proposition: Anne Bayefsky, Director, Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President, Human Rights Voices.
Oxford students voted to defeat the motion 206 against, and 54 in favor.
The attempted interruptions - and violations of the rules not stopped by the Chair - were from the usual neighborhood bully: Palestinian UN representative Riyad Mansour. Ever playing the victim, he cynically asked to speak in support of the proposition. Speakers against the proposition - in defense of the United Nations - included former UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft (2015-2016) and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's communications director, Edward Mortimer.