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Protesters Who Sing Hamas Slogans Are "Not Anti-Semitic," University Decides
(Telegraph-UK) India McTaggart - Protesters who chant Hamas slogans on campus are not anti-Semitic, the University of Essex has ruled, despite instructions by Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary, that those who chanted the pro-Palestinian slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" could be referred to the police following the outlawing of support for Hamas. Zahawi told the Jewish Chronicle in January that the Hamas rallying cry is "the kind of anti-Semitic, intolerant, murderous attitude of the organization that's proscribed." The students chanted the slogan outside a university event last October where the speaker was Col. Richard Kemp, the former head of British forces in Afghanistan, known for his support for Israel. Col. Kemp said that the university should "reconsider their blindsided denial of anti-Semitism" and that the university's conclusion "does not tally with British law nor our country's respect for civil debate."