Benny Morris, 75, was heckled by students at The London School of Economics (LSE) as he gave a lecture about the Israeli-Palestinian crisis earlier this week.
This is the moment a group of pro-Palestinian students called for an eminent Israeli historian to be kicked off a university campus after he was accused of being a racist.
In a heated exchange, footage shows students standing and shouting angrily in the lecture theatre at Mr Morris saying 'we do not want you here' and 'racism off our campus'. The lecture erupted into chaos when the students turned on the historian after he labels the student 'quite boring'. Chants of 'free, free Palestine' can be heard during the lecture, while outside a crowd of pro-Palestine students staged a protest as Mr Morris's talk is ongoing inside the building.
The university's students' union newspaper, The Beaver, reported Prof Kershaw had responded to criticism about the event in an email sent to students in February. 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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