In the Telegraph, Oxford professor Nigel Biggar laments the support of Oxford academics and staff for pro-Palestinian student protesters at the university. Here’s an excerpt:
Three hundred and one Oxford academics and staff have signed an online letter declaring their support of the students’ “entirely reasonable” demand that the university disinvest from “Israel’s genocide in Gaza”.
There’s no cause for panic. The signatories represent a fraction of the 15,000 professors, research staff, and doctoral students at Oxford. …
Yet, what should still dismay is that highly educated grown-ups in one of the world’s leading universities – some of them occupying very senior positions – have got their history, ethics and law so wrong. …
Before 1914 the land in Palestine on which Zionists settled had been purchased from Arab landlords. Moreover, many of the settlers were refugees from murderous pogroms in Russia. Naturally, Arab peasants who had worked the land for generations resented it when their tenancies weren’t renewed. The process was legal under Ottoman law.
In 1922, the League of Nations mandated Britain to administer Palestine, in order to build a new independent Arab state and a Jewish homeland out of the ruins of the irredeemable Ottoman Empire. In 1930, faced with violent Arab unrest, the British considered restricting Jewish immigration but decided against it out of sympathy for Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. When Britain unilaterally withdrew from Palestine in February 1947, Zionists occupied only 10% of Palestinian territory.
The main displacement of the Arab population happened after that, when invading Arab armies attempted to crush the infant State of Israel in 1948-9. This propelled 750,000 Arabs to flee, abandoning their land. Many were expelled. Yet, when Arab troops occupied Jerusalem, Jews too were forced out and about 900,000 more were driven from Arab countries, most seeking refuge in Israel. …
As for ethics, the… dreadful truth is that the prosecution of war invariably involves civilian casualties. And when there are sufficiently compelling reasons for fighting – say, self-defence against a manifestly genocidal Hamas – those casualties may be, tragically, justified. That’s why the laws of war don’t forbid the killing of non-combatants as such, but only their intentional and disproportionate killing: the objective must be a military one, and the harm done civilians incidental to the military purpose and no greater than necessary. …
On the matter of law, the International Court of Justice has not, as the Oxford signatories claim, judged the situation in Gaza as “plausibly amounting to genocide”. In paragraph 30 of its January 2024 ruling of the case brought by South Africa, the court made quite clear that it was “not required to ascertain whether any violations of Israel’s obligations under the Genocide Convention have occurred”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts isn’t shedding any tears over the U.K. university courses on race and colonialism that are facing the axe due to cuts.
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Yet more good news for Fishy the WEF stool pigeon. I predict a plum job inside the organisation when he becomes the first Conservative PM in 120 years to return less than 100 MP’s at a general election. What an accolade. And Kneel will jump on board to further immiserate the country and its people before he departs for his preferred place of work – Davos.
It’s all coming along nicely for them.
How can we be so collectively dumb to keep putting an X in abox for these squirming parasite UN lackeys that have long since serving the public, and now bend over the bonnet of EV’s to be shafted up the a.. by the Davos deviants, as you often call them.
Tri Lateral Kneel let’s not forget ! One of their own !
And there was me thinking road tax went on, well, roads! I guess I’m too old fashioned.
This guy is a star. I won’t vote. Fu+k the establishment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqr2lbTcyM
It’s the most powerful message you can send. The only message they’ll hear: We see you. We are not playing. We are coming.
“The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – the Government’s fiscal watchdog – estimates the Treasury’s receipts from VED at £8bn in 2023-24, up from £6.7bn in 2020/21. Adjusting for the 570,000 extra drivers on British roads, this works out to a 17.4pc increase per head.”
Bloody hell! So along with all the other freebies given to immigrants we are now giving them a free car on arrival. No wonder the boats keep coming.
Eh what? Is that real or are you just winding me/us up?
Bloody hell I hope it’s a BEV!
Oh no. That would be impractical without off-street parking.
Well if you are a politician, a civil servant an advisor living in the hallowed Westminster, EU, etc, you don’t need a car, because you have a car provided by us the tax payer with a driver, and when you aren’t using that you are in London with all your ilk, and don’t move out of the little bubble you live in, apart from when you need to visit the proles, then its a tax payer funded car and driver, Helicopter or jet.
They don’t care about us, they care about their place in the political world, how they appear to the WEF boys and where theie next big opportunity is to make bucks for themselves.
Seconded
Never mind driving costs WHAT ABOUT Humza Useless & his pay off – Ready ? Well it’s £52K a year for the rest of his life !!
FFS!
You can tolerate a lot of abuse over a couple of months if you know that at the end you can walk away safe in the knowledge that you have 52 grand for life to look forward to.
He knew he wasn’t up to the job of FM, and I did wonder if there was a period of ‘time in post’ to qualify for that obscene level of pension…and he hung on till he decided to ditch the Greens.
It is not just a war on the motorist, it is a war on the whole standard of living of the people in the wealthy west. But ofcourse the car is the one really big example of our wealth. A private vehicle can take us from our front door to anywhere in the country and the Sustainable Development Collectivists at the UN and WEF hate that. They think a bus, train or bicycle should be all we need. The excuse for the lowering of our standard of living is always “climate change”, the biggest pseudo scientific fraud ever perpetrated, and yet huge chunks of the population really think there is a climate emergency, because they hear it nearly everyday on their 6 O’clock News. ——How can people hardly believe a word coming from the mouths of politicians on almost everything, but when it comes the climate they seem to swallow it all down whole? ——The answer it seems is endless propaganda and scaremongering often referred to as “science”
One group that is fighting for the rights and freedoms of all motorists is the Alliance of British Drivers (ABD.org.uk). Please support them and preferably become members.
Yup I am a member.