Posted on 12/07/2025 10:27:45 AM PST by Eleutheria5
On the evening of November 11, 2025, University College London provided a lecture theatre and official student-society imprimatur for an event at which Dr. Samar Maqusi, a former fixed-term researcher at UCL and previously employed by the UNRWA for Palestine Refugees, delivered the opening lecture in a five-part series entitled “Palestine: From Existence to Resistance”, organized by the university’s recognized Justice in Palestine Society. From the very beginning, there was no hesitation or pretense. On the contrary, the darkest prejudices of the past were brought to life. The lecturer was undaunted.
In the course of her talk, “The Birth of Zionism”, Dr. Maqusi meticulously recounted the 1840 “Damascus Affair” as though it were historical fact: that Jews in Damascus had kidnapped a Capuchin monk, Father Thomas, drained his blood, and used it to bake “special pancakes or bread” for a “holy ceremony”. She stated explicitly (a) that “part of the holy ceremony is that drops of blood from someone who’s not Jewish… has to be mixed in that bread”, and (b) that the accused Jews, who were tortured to the extreme, had “admitted” to the murder. The Damascus blood libel—one of the most notorious antisemitic fabrications in history, which triggered pogroms across the Middle East and Europe—was thus revived on a UCL platform eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
Only after video footage of the lecture went viral on social media on November 13, and only after sustained pressure from Jewish students, the Community Security Trust, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and numerous public figures, did UCL at last find the courage to act. That very same day, the Provost, Dr. Michael Spence, issued an “unequivocal apology”, describing the remarks as “heinous antisemitic comments” and affirming that “antisemitism has absolutely no place in our university”.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
NO ARAB NATION WANTS PALISTINIANS TO SETTLE WITHIN ITS BORDERS.
That is all you need to know about the violent barbarians.
......UCL has many notable alumni, including the founder of Mauritius, the first prime minister of Japan and one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. [Francis Crick] UCL academics discovered five of the naturally occurring noble gases, discovered hormones, invented the vacuum tube, and made several foundational advances in modern statistics. As of 2025, 33 Nobel Prize laureates[16] and three Fields medallists[17] have been affiliated with UCL as alumni or academic staff......
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UCL needs to live up to its reputation, NOT become “Palestinian U”!
The same goes for Harvard, MIT, etc. etc.!
> affirming that “antisemitism has absolutely no place in our university”. <
Absolutely no place only when they get caught, and are forced to apologize.
Great Britain is lost. Between this and that cr\etin who was elected as the Head of the Oxford Union it shows me that their universities - great universities - have turned to shite (to use the English term). A great culture gone... through self-destruction.
I believe that’s shyte, with a “Y”.
It’s a great culture, all right. And its salvation is not up to Oxford and Cambridge, but up to Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farrage and Mahyar Tousi, et al. They’re the Obiwan.
Truly gutted.
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