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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/23/pro-gaza-protesters-hostility-michael-ben-gad/
Pro-Gaza Protesters on a "Jew Hunt" in London
(Telegraph-UK) Tom Slater - "Pro-Palestine" protesters stormed a lecture last week at the University of London by economics professor Michael Ben-Gad for no other reason than he is an Israeli Jew. They branded him a war criminal. They chanted "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," a call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from their homeland. They even threatened to behead him. They were all masked, naturally. This came after days of agitation, in which leaflets and posters and social-media screeds had called Ben-Gad a "terrorist" and demanded he be sacked. His crime? He did what most Israeli citizens are required to do by law. He served in the IDF. Singling out Ben-Gad for serving in the army is like singling out a Briton for paying his TV license. It is a justification for targeting practically any Israeli Jew. That he completed his service in the 1980s, long before the protesters were born, hasn't dented the activists' ire. Where have all the anti-racists gone? They are deadly silent as a tiny, embattled minority is menaced on campus. Academics, students, administrators - now is the time to stand with your Jewish friends and colleagues. This is Jew-hatred draped in a keffiyeh. Time to confront it.