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Cambridge slammed for 'censoring' Palestine BDS event

Mandhai, Shafik
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/cambridge-slammed-censoring-palestine-bds-event-171111144746630.html

Publisher:  Al Jazeera
Date Written:  11/11/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Cambridge University is accused of censorship after it threatened to ban a meeting about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, unless the Palestinian academic chairing it was removed and replaced with its own choice.

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In Manchester, a freedom of information request filed by the activists revealed that the university had agreed to censor the title of talk given by a Holocaust survivor after a meeting with the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev.

The organisers of the Cambridge event said the university had intervened after pressure from pro-Israel lobby groups.

"Having essentially abandoned the battle for 'hearts and minds', Israel and its supporters are resorting to legal warfare and lobbying for the suppression of speech," McNally said.

"As seen at Cambridge this week, and in pressure successfully applied by the Israeli ambassador on the University of Manchester to censor events on Palestine, these efforts are manifest on university campuses."
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