ined by the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s, the same Muslim Brotherhood funded and supported by Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s.
Yet the LSE Middle East Centre desperately clings to the university’s Code of Practice on Free Speech:
“We endeavour to provide a platform to facilitate discourse on contemporary matters by encouraging critical debate, within the law, where the views of all parties are treated with respect.”
The views of Christians, Jews, and other religious people do not appear – at time of writing – to figure in this event, nor do they figure much in academia generally.
For instance, a session at the National Union of Students conference voted this year to ban its Jewish student group. Calls to “globalise the intifada” sprang up on university campuses around Britain – a call which the largest university lecturers’ union (among others) also backed.
We must urgently save academia from such racist, anti-inclusive incitement to violence. We must stop subsidising substandard degree courses on which paid agitators get to spread their poison and we must stop handing out qualifications like candy from institutions that were once beacons of intellectual excellence and honest inquiry to people who couldn’t find Israel on a map.
Our esteemed halls of learning have become, in the words of Professor James Orr “ivory asylums” that seem to care more about the diversity of immutable characteristics than diversity of opinion and genuine intellectual debate, let alone the truth of empirical evidence, historic fact and contemporary data.
And so, Black Lives Matter, except in Africa where black Christians are being decapitated and young girls kidnapped as sex slaves.
LGBTQ+ rights matter, except in Islamic countries that execute homosexuals (in Yemen you can be crucified for being gay).
And women should always be believed, unless they’re Jewish, in which case even videos of grotesque sexual torture, videos made by their torturers themselves and posted by them live on social media, must be Israeli propaganda.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
George Orwell, 1984
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