UK tribunal rules anti-Zionist views protected and not anti-Semitic

The UK Employment Tribunal ruled that political sociology professor David Miller was wrongfully dismissed for his anti-Zionist views, which are protected by anti-discrimination laws.

It's a landmark victory in a more than four-year witch hunt that upended the life of political sociology professor David Miller, the Employment Tribunal hearing his case now issued a 120-page judgment saying he is entitled to his anti-Zionist views.

• UK tribunal rules anti-Zionist academic’s views should be protected by anti-discrimination laws
  

  UK tribunal rules anti-Zionist academic’s views should be protected by anti-discrimination laws

  An employment tribunal determines that the anti-Zionist perspectives of renowned academic Professor David Miller are entitled to protection under anti-discrimination legislation.

The court found that I was wrongfully dismissed, but they also, most importantly, found that I had been dismissed because of my anti-Zionist views, and they determined that my views were worthy of respect in a democratic society, to use the language from the equality legislation, which meant that they were not, as the university had tried to maintain, akin to Nazism.

So this was a tremendous victory.

David Miller, Academic

A tremendous victory that Professor Miller says sets a vital precedent.

One can stand up and fight the Zionists and win, and that ... we don't have to simply apologize, move on, not engage in the argument.

If we engage in the argument, then we can win, even in Western societies like the UK.

David Miller, Academic

• David Miller verdict raises hopes for pro-Palestine voices
  

  David Miller verdict raises hopes for pro-Palestine voices

  Professor David Miller and his legal team successfully claimed unfair dismissal and discrimination at Bristol University based on his philosophical beliefs that Zionism is inherently racist, imperialist, and colonial.

Professor Miller gave a lecture at Bristol University in 2019 in which he identified Zionism as inherently racist and a pillar of Islamophobia. Soon he was targeted as an anti-Semite by Jewish students and pro-Israel groups and in 2021 he was fired.

But to understand how it all came about, one needs to go back a few years.

Since 2015, the British government has enforced the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism on universities and beyond; a definition which equates criticism of Israel and Zionism with anti-Semitism.

• Bristol University Professor David Miller under intense pressure by Zionist lobby
  

  Bristol University Professor David Miller under intense pressure by Zionist lobby

  A leading academic at Bristol University has come under attack by the Zionist lobby which is calling for him to be sacked after he decried the Israeli regime

At the moment, it seems that to actually commit genocide is okay for the British legal system, it isn't okay for the ICJ but for the British system, it’s okay.

But to criticize genocide, to criticize Israel and other countries like Britain ... arming it for the genocide, is not okay.

Now this is totally illogical and immoral and doesn't make any sense at all.

Haim Breshteeth, Professor of Cultural and Audiovisual Studies at the University of East London

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  Journalist critical of Israeli genocide in Gaza arrested in UK under 'Terrorism Act'

  An independent British journalist critical of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is briefly arrested in the UK under Section 12 of the country’s Terrorism Act of 2000.

Professor Miller's legal battle with the University of Bristol over how much compensation he should be awarded is still ongoing.

The ruling in Professor Miller's favor is the second successful challenge to the made up allegations of anti-Semitism used to hound opponents of those in Tel Aviv out of their jobs.

It is a body blow, activists say, to the global challenge by the usurpers in Tel Aviv and their Western allies to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

• UK politics fraught with Israel lobby groups
  

  UK politics fraught with Israel lobby groups

  The British government policy will continue to support Israel and ignore the Palestinian plight no matter which political party is in charge.

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