Celebrating 100 years. Bare faced lies, distortion and propaganda at the SOAS centenary talk

...This a university event, ‘coincidentally’ falling during the Apartheid Week schedule. It had lies, it had ‘Apartheid’, it had ‘BDS’. A talk so bias, so full of lies, so vile, it could have been arranged by the Palestinian Society. Baroness Valerie Amos should be ashamed of herself.

David Collier..
Across the Great Divide..
10 March '17..

Last night 9/3/2017, I had an invite to two very different events. The first, an event at UCL hosted by the UCL Israel Society, with Mohammed Zoabi. The second, part of the SOAS centenary lecture series, with a talk by ‘renowned human rights lawyer’ Raja Shehadeh.

As it was, I chose to see both, an upside to the new trend of live streaming. This a tale of two people. One looking beyond the hate, the other losing himself to it. I am left asking why SOAS chose to place such a moment of recognition on pure anti-Israel slander? Academia is now blind to truth, deaf to reason and actively assisting in spreading propaganda instead of academic research or messages of hope.

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