Certainly, few British academics took a stand against Tom Paulin, a lecturer in English at Oxford University, when he said in April that Jewish settlers in Israel “should be shot dead”.
Maybe, in plain words, they're a bunch of anti-semites.
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"...sub-Marxian world-view..." A very good phrase, very descriptive, worth remembering.
Pretty 'low down' for such "sophisticated" people like the English.