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Anti-Zionist academic David Miller detained as Starmer’s war on anti-genocide speech continues (skwawkbox.org)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

Man who has links to a proscribed terrorist group and went abroad to attend funeral of a Hezbollah leader is questioned by police. More at 11.

Being pro Islamist terror group is not "anti-genocide speech".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Supporting links? ETA: Even so, human rights belong to humans, not just humans we like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Supporting links?

Here:

One British attendee stood out: David Miller, a former University of Bristol professor with a long track record of antisemitic incitement.

Miller, who was dismissed from his university post for his obsessive demonization of Jews and Israel, has been bankrolled by Iran’s state-owned Press TV, where he co-hosts ‘Palestine Declassified’ with former British MP Chris Williamson—who was expelled from the UK’s Labour Party over his own antisemitism scandal. The program, which previously dedicated a special edition to targeting HonestReporting, has relentlessly pushed conspiracy theories, claiming that “Zionists” control world events, have a “stranglehold” over the media, and are “grooming young people.”

But Miller doesn’t just spew conspiracy theories from afar—he actively supports Hezbollah and its broader network of terrorist proxies.

And:

Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed paramilitary group in Lebanon, has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government in its entirety since 2019. Previously, the government made a distinction between the group’s political and military wings.

Campaign group Labour Against Antisemitism (LAAS) said that they had reported Miller to the police following his posts about attending the ceremony.

Also:

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/miller-detained-by-counter-terror-cops-on-return-from-hezbollah-leaders-funeral/

If someone employed by the Iranian regime was reported to police in connection to a proscribed organisation, it would be remiss of the police not to pick him up to answer some questions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Your links :

In 2000, HonestReporting started as a small email list alerting subscribers to anti-Israel media bias. When the organization took on The New York Times over the adjacent photo, the real fight back began as the power of numbers proved its value. Since then, HonestReporting has evolved into the world’s premier grassroots media watchdog organization defending Israel against media bias.

I hate to ask, but you have anything that doesn’t openly declare it reason for existing is to advance an Israeli narrative?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Here's a piece from the Socialist Worker Party:

[Miller] wrote, “Jews are not discriminated against,” “They are over-represented in Europe, North America and Latin America in positions of cultural, economic and political power,” “They are therefore in a position to discriminate against actually marginalised groups,” and, “Judeophobia barely exists.”

Such allegations lump together all Jews without any recognition of class or other differences. Miller targets Jews, not the actual ruling class, and plays on the idea of Jews as ultra-rich and manipulative.

Obviously, anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism, but that doesn't mean anti-Zionists can't be antisemitic, which Miller seems to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I am baffled as to why you should join the argument at this point, and talk about who Miller is, or is not.

If he was carrying a placard saying “burn the Jews” he is being antisemitic and should be arrested .

If he’s only been to funeral, he’s done nothing wrong. .

While you and others here are so obviously comfortable with your enemies being persecuted, I am not, because there’s a word for that ideology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

You asked for an alternative source from the pro-Israeli one, with the main thrust of the quoted parts being that he's antisemitic, if I misunderstood what was being asked for then I apologise.

If he’s only been to funeral, he’s done nothing wrong.

He was detained under anti-terror laws for attending the funeral for the leader of a proscribed terror group and making several posts on social media in support of proscribed terror groups around the same time. I don't think the decision to apply those anti-terror laws are as unreasonable as you're making them out to be, even though they are fairly draconian in scope and I'd personally like to see them repealed.

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