No free speech for Israelis at British universities
But Muslims can say what they like
"The Israel Society at Cambridge University has succumbed to pressure and canceled a talk by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev historian Benny Morris after protesters accused him of “Islamophobia” and “racism.”
Morris was scheduled to speak to students at the university on Thursday, but following a campaign led by anti-Israel activist Ben White the Israel Society canceled the talk. Instead Morris was invited to speak at an event hosted by the university’s Department of Political and International Studies.
White, who graduated from the university in 2005 and authored the book Israeli Apartheid: A Beginners Guide, set up a protest page on Facebook in which he claimed that “on different occasions, Morris has expressed Islamophobic and racist sentiments towards Arabs and Muslims.” ...
Last year, Cambridge’s Palestine Society hosted Abd al-Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper. In 2008, Atwan said the terrorist attack on Jerusalem’s Mercaz Harav yeshiva, in which eight students were killed and 15 were wounded, was “justified”
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5 comments:
Another clear example of what Britain has become. An outpost for radical muslims.
The Israel Society made a huge mistake by canceling the talk. This gesture to appease the Muslims is useless, of they never believe to be wrong about anything.
England, you need to control your Muslims before they control you!
It would seem to be too late already.
Too bad. The word needs to be spread far and wide about the implications of Islam running rampant throughout the world.
If a university won't let a speaker like Benny Morris come to its campus to speak in person, why not video conference instead? How is anyone going to stop those interested in hearing what he has to say from gathering in a video conference room and connecting to him that way? Which reminds me - those who want to hear their speaker should raise a huge stink about the university violating their individual rights to hear whom they want to hear.
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