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When will British institutions stand up to intimidation?

I was just now reading an interview in the FT by Henry Mance with historian Avi Shlaim, emeritus professor at Oxford university.

Avil Shlaim was born in Baghdad, moved to Israel at the age of 6, served in the Israeli Defence Forces for two years in the 1960s and holds dual British and Israeli nationality.

In 2006, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy and in 2017 he was awarded the British Academy Medal "for lifetime achievement".

The interview says that:

He was due to give a talk drawing on his childhood memoir at Liverpool Hope University weeks after the attacks. The university asked him to postpone after local Jews and staff raised safety concerns. Furious at the “no platforming”, Shlaim cancelled. 

“What this illustrates is the excessive sensitivity of some British Jews of interpreting any criticisms of Israel as an attack on Jews . . . They can’t silence me. But I’m seriously worried about young Palestinian academics in British universities who are subjected to intimidation.”

First try protecting the institutions from being fvcked over by the government, forced to take as many foreign students as possible to stay solvent, crap pay for staff, ridiculous metrics that inhibit if not actually prevent research, then report back. Chz.

M7 they can’t wait to pimp out their places. You see who complains when there’s a suggestion they cut the numbers. Clue, it’s not the govt. there are far too many ‘universities’ and academics have one of the best pay and pension deals around

Poor risky. You know what it looks like when you complain that everyone else gets paid too much and has a better pension than you right?

Is the mcflurry machine working today?

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