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‘TOXIC AND POLARIZING’: OXFORD UNION DEBATE ON ISRAEL GENOCIDE STILL ROILS


AS COUNTERTERROR POLICE INVESTIGATE AN ANTI-ISRAEL SPEAKER’S STATEMENTS AT THE
NOVEMBER 28 EVENT, JEWISH STUDENTS AND PANELISTS DECRY ITS CONTRIBUTION TO
CLIMATE OF JEW-HATRED

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Illustrative: Then-US secretary of state John Kerry, speaking at the Oxford
Union at Oxford University, England, May 11, 2016. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo
via AP)

LONDON — If the aim of students at the Oxford Union was to stir controversy with
their motion accusing Israel of being “an apartheid state responsible for
genocide,” the members of the elite debating society at one of Britain’s most
prestigious universities succeeded in spades.

Almost three weeks after the November 28 debate, the fallout continues, with
reports that counterterrorism police are investigating complaints about remarks
made by a pro-Palestinian speaker, accusations of antisemitism, and calls from
one of Britain’s top academics for the government to cut funding to universities
that fail to protect their Jewish students.

Founded over two centuries ago, the Oxford Union is the political finishing
school in which future prime ministers, cabinet ministers, and journalists hone
their skills and cut their teeth. Although not formally part of the university
itself, almost all of its members and officers are Oxford students, and two
academics sit on its governing committee.




As well as attracting top-shelf speakers, including former US presidents,
Hollywood actors, and leading cultural figures, the Union is renowned for
hitting the headlines. Appearances by Oswald Mosley, head of the UK’s pre-World
War II fascist Blackshirts, David Irving, the discredited Holocaust-denying
historian, and Nick Griffin, the former leader of the far-right British National
party, have long led to accusations that the Union is overstepping the
boundaries of free speech.

Last month’s debate on Israel is likely to join this catalog of infamy. The
result of the debate — a predictable 59 to 278 thrashing against the pro-Israel
speakers — is likely to be forgotten long before the content of some of the
speeches and what has been described as a “toxic and polarizing” atmosphere in
the storied debating chamber.

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According to the Sunday Telegraph, Miko Peled, a pro-Palestinian
Israeli-American activist and author, is now under investigation by specialist
counterterror police following complaints about remarks he made during the
debate. “What we saw on October 7 was not terrorism,” Peled argued. “These were
acts of heroism of a people who have been oppressed.”

Thousands of Hamas-led terrorism invaded southern Israel on October 7, 2023,
slaughtering 1,200 men, women, and children, and kidnapping 251 to the Gaza
Strip, amid acts of horrific brutality including sexual assault.

Jonathan Turner, executive director of UK Lawyers for Israel, says he believes
Peled’s remarks breach section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

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“In saying this, he expressed an opinion or belief supportive of Hamas, a
proscribed terrorist organization,” Turner told The Times of Israel. “Moreover,
given the cheers he had already received, he was reckless as to whether members
of the audience would be encouraged by his words to support Hamas.”

Turner suspects Peled has now left the UK and returned to the US. British police
are unlikely to seek his extradition, due to the costly process and possible
refusal on the grounds of freedom of speech.

“However, if Peled returns to the UK, he should be arrested and tried,” Turner
said.



An open letter, organized by the Pinsker Center, a campus-based foreign policy
think tank, and signed by over 300 academics, has similarly raised concerns
about law-breaking at the event.

“We unequivocally condemn the incendiary remarks made by some speakers in
support of Hamas and terrorist violence. Such statements are not only morally
reprehensible, but also in clear violation of the law,” said the letter, whose
signatories included Baroness Ruth Deech, Prof. Sir Vernon Bogdanor, acting
principal of Oxford’s Brasenose College, and University of Haifa history
professor Dr. Fania Oz-Salzberger. “Glorifying acts of violence under the guise
of advocating for Palestinian rights serves neither justice nor peace.”

The academics also targeted the tenor of the debate. “While discussing issues
like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is vital, dangerous rhetoric, provocative
behavior, and acts of intimidation have no place in such forums,” they wrote.
“Reports that Jewish students felt threatened or intimidated during and after
the debate are deeply disturbing. The university and the Union have a duty to
ensure that Jewish students — and all minority groups — feel safe, respected,
and protected from hate and harassment.”

A pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel camp outside the Pitt Rivers Museum at the
University of Oxford, in England, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Both pro-Israel speakers and Jewish students at the debate have since reported
they felt anything but.

“It was terrifying being Jewish in that room. I don’t think any of them would
have actually attacked us, but it certainly felt like that in the moment. None
of us [Jewish students] left alone,” Boruch Epstein, a postgraduate student,
told the Sunday Telegraph last weekend.

“I have been a member of the Oxford Union for three years,” he added. “I have
never witnessed a debate like this.”


‘HIDEOUS, SINISTER AND SUFFUSED WITH TENSION’

Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti, one of the four pro-Israeli speakers
opposing the motion that Israel is an apartheid state promoting genocide,
likewise said that “the atmosphere in the chamber was hideous, sinister, and
suffused with tension.”

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“Jews who might have attended were clearly too afraid to show up: many had
written to me privately to tell me of their fears,” he wrote in The Spectator
magazine. “From the moment the debate began, the crowd displayed its unbridled
hatred towards us.”

During his speech, Sacerdoti was interrupted by a young woman screaming: “Liar!
F– you, the genocidal motherf–er!”



And Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas co-founder who renounced the terror group
and became a pro-Israel activist, was labeled a “traitor” and a “prostitute” (in
Arabic). When he asked the audience to raise their hands if they would have
reported Hamas’s plans to the Israeli authorities if they had prior knowledge of
the October 7 massacre, few did so.

> The chamber of the Oxford Union has been breached by the forces of bigotry,
> hatred, and mob rule

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“The chamber of the Oxford Union,” Sacerdoti wrote, “has been breached by the
forces of bigotry, hatred, and mob rule.”

In a statement, the Oxford Union has strongly defended itself against critics.
“As a Union, we are unwavering in our commitment to free speech. This means
difficult or controversial views can be expressed and challenged,” it said. “The
Oxford Union has a proud tradition of hosting debates on the most challenging
issues of the day, and it is this commitment to open discourse that sets us
apart. The Union does not endorse the views expressed by any of the speakers.”

Mosab Hassan Yousef addresses an American Friends of Magen David Adom event in
Florida, December 2018. (Courtesy)

Saceredoti has accused the Union of withholding and editing video of the debate
to remove abusive heckling of pro-Israel speakers, including himself, and
statements supporting the October 7 Hamas atrocities by anti-Israel speaker Miko
Peled. The Union said that not publishing and editing video was consistent with
its existing practices.

Lord William Hague, a former Conservative Foreign Secretary who was last month
elected Chancellor of Oxford University, has indicated his unhappiness about the
debate.

“I have seen the open letter and, from what I have heard of last week’s debate …
share the concerns of the signatories,” he told The Times. “When I take office
as chancellor … I will do my utmost to encourage a culture of debate that will
at times be fierce and strongly felt but should always be respectful and never
intimidating.”

William Hague in 2010. (By Rob Hunt / Foreign, Commonwealth and Development
Office, OGL 3)

But Hague’s role is largely symbolic and Jewish students at the university
suggest the Oxford Union debate was not an isolated incident.

“For over a year, Jewish students at Oxford have faced a torrent of hatred on
our campus,” the Oxford Jewish Society and the Union of Jewish Students said in
a joint statement after the debate. They cited slogans such as “Globalize the
intifada,” “There is only one solution — intifada revolution,” and “Zionists are
not welcome at Oxford,” and attacked the Oxford Union’s debate. “Inflammatory
speakers were invited not in the spirit of free speech, but instead to spark
division, alienating Jewish — and all — students.”


A FIRE HOSE OF HATRED

An open letter sent to the university authorities in May cataloged over 100
antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents that had occurred at the university in the
previous six months. One instance concerned an Israeli student, whose family
members were murdered, with one taken hostage, on October 7. They shared their
experiences with their college welfare officer a few days later and were told:
“Oxford is often not a nice place for Israelis and Jews, and there is nothing we
can do about it.”

The open letter said that displays for the hostages and vigils for the
massacre’s victims were constantly “vandalized by both individual students and
some university groups,” while those who organized events for the hostages often
had “derogatory and violent comments” shouted at them.

> Oxford is often not a nice place for Israelis and Jews, and there is nothing
> we can do about it

Other incidents included: an Israeli fellow told by a colleague that “Jews run
all the banks in the world”; an Israeli student was told by a number of students
from their college, “You guys control the American government”; and a Jewish
student told by another student that they “wouldn’t date a Jew.” A Jewish
student who told their director of studies about the hostile environment at the
university was told to “get over antisemitism.”

New figures from the Community Security Trust, which monitors antisemitism and
protects Jewish institutions in the UK, released this week show the experience
of Jewish and Israeli students at Oxford is not unique. In the 2023/24 campus
year, there were 272 university-related antisemitic incidents recorded by CST —
the highest total ever recorded for a single academic year and a jump of 117
percent on the 2020-22 reporting period. “This can primarily be attributed to
the wave of anti-Jewish hatred following the October 7 Hamas terror attack in
Israel and the subsequent ongoing war in the Middle East that has led to a sharp
rise in antisemitic incidents nationwide,” said the CST.

Anti-far-right demonstrators protest as Nick Griffin of the British National
Party and Holocaust-denying historian David Irving attend a debate on free
speech at the Oxford Union in Oxford, November 26, 2007. (Jon ENOCH / AFP)

Mark Gardner, the chief executive of the CST, called for university authorities,
the government and the police to confront extremists who are “permitted to
harass, intimidate and disrupt on campus.”

Writing in response to the Oxford Union debate, Bogdanor, a highly respected
constitutional scholar and historian, has called on Oxford to adopt specific
guidelines on antisemitism, arguing that those on racism are “too generalized.”

But he has also said it is time for the government to step in and take a tougher
approach. The prime minister, Keir Starmer, should meet university
vice-chancellors and tell them to take “personal responsibility” for the safety
and well-being of Jewish students, the academic said. The prime minister should
warn too that universities that fail to meet their obligations under the UK’s
Equality Act, which protects ethnic and religious minorities from
discrimination, should face cuts in government funding.

“In America, Donald Trump is informing college presidents that, unless they
confront antisemitism, they will lose federal funding,” Bogdanor pointedly
noted. “A Labour government must not show itself less sensitive to racism than
Donald Trump.”

> A Labour government must not show itself less sensitive to racism than Donald
> Trump

Turner backs the calls to penalize universities that fail to tackle antisemitism
and urges increased support for students to challenge it.

“There are very serious problems of antisemitism on British campuses. I agree
with cutting both public and private funding from universities that fail to take
adequate action to tackle this problem,” he said.

Turner also believes that Jewish students and “other fair-minded students” need
to be helped and encouraged to “stand up against the hatred,” and provided with
“the true facts relating to Israel and correct explanations of the legal
issues.”

“Funds withheld from unsatisfactory universities could helpfully be redeployed
to support such learning,” he said.



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Sources familiar with talks say Hamas compromising on terms of IDF withdrawal
but still insisting on permanent ceasefire, fearing deal made under Biden could
collapse under Trump
Katz said to tell MKs hostage-truce deal ‘closer than ever,’ echoing Hamas
optimism
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Trump says he’s ‘trying to help very strongly’ to bring hostages home
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Chief of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which ousted Assad regime, pledges commitment to
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Otzma Yehudit votes against state budget, as coalition argues over bid to fire
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