Israeli Historian Mobbed by Activists at LSE Middle East Lecture

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Israeli Historian Mobbed by Activists at LSE Middle East Lecture
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Benny Morris, an Israeli historian, was heckled by pro-Palestine activists during a lecture at the London School of Economics. Prior to the event, he was targeted by a leaflet campaign calling for the cancellation of the lecture.

An Israeli historian who was mobbed by pro-Palestine activists at an LSE Middle East lecture was targeted by a leaflet campaign in the days prior to the event.

Posters were put up online and around the university buildings with photos of the historian and controversial quotes from his books and interviews. One leaflet included a quote from his 2009 book One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict, which reads: 'Arabs, to put it simply, proportionately commit far more crimes, and commit far more lethal traffic violations than do Jews.'

It continues: 'If was already engaged in expulsion, maybe he should have done a complete job. If Ben-Gurion ha carried out a large expulsion and cleansed the whole country...he would have stabilised the State of Israel for generations. The Israeli Arabs are a time bomb. One female student quotes comments made by Mr Morris in the 2004 interview in which he called Palestine the 'fifth column' and Israeli-Arabs 'a time bomb'.

READ MORE: Fresh fears that central London is now a 'no-go area' for Jews during pro-Palestine protests - as Michael Gove prepares to set out a new definition of 'extremism' to help 'good-hearted people' decide whether to join marches Drums are banged and a person leading the chant on a megaphone says: 'Apartheid off campus. Benny Morris off campus.'

Mr Morris's previous guest attendance at LSE in 2011 was also met with protests on the streets of London by human rights activists. 'While I respect and understand the desire for academic freedom, I feel that the event with Benny Morris is a greater threat to the wellbeing, and sense of belonging, for many students at LSE, and I believe all students should feel respected and valued within our community – no one should have to bear the burden of fear and hostility in their academic environment.

Mr Morris was jailed in the 1980s after refusing to serve in Israel's reserves against the first intifada as he disagreed with the country's policies In an interview with Fathom in 2015, Mr Morris somewhat backtracked on his comments he made more than a decade earlier to Israeli news site Haaretz in which he tried to justify ethnic cleansing of Palestine and called Israeli Arabs a 'time bomb'.

Mr Morris was jailed in the 1980s after refusing to serve in Israel's reserves against the first intifada as he disagreed with the country's policies.Mr Morris called current Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a 'hateful, corrupt leader in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last year in which he spoke about the October 7 slaughtering of Jews by Hamas.

Today senior Tories expressed fresh fears that central London has become a 'no-go area' for Jewish people during pro-Palestinian protests in the capital. Such demonstrations have become a regular occurrence in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks on 7 October and Israel's bloody assault on Gaza in response.

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