Mick Hartley

As Daniel Kodsi and John Maier noted in their weekend Times essay – Academics are to blame for the woke wreckage at universities – "Outside economics, many academics indulge poorly evidenced, anti-capitalist posturing to an incredible degree. Identify yourself as a socialist, or openly sympathise with the objectives of murderously oppressive left-wing regimes, and no one will blink." Some academics also indulge in the crudest antisemitism and no one will blink.

From the Telegraph:

A senior lecturer appeared to claim terrorism was “made up” by Israel to marginalise Muslims, The Telegraph can reveal.

Dr Tarek Younis, an academic at Middlesex University, delivered a guest lecture at University College London (UCL) as part of the “Culture and the Clinic” unit of UCL’s MSc in Clinical Mental Health Sciences.

During this lecture, delivered in March, he claimed that “terrorism” was an abstract construct created by Israel, and a made-up word to marginalise Muslims.

That'll come as a surprise to the victims of 9/11, 7/7…and so on and on and on…

Dr Younis appeared to praise students who made anti-Israel and anti-Zionist statements during the class and opened with a moment of silence for the “genocide in Gaza”.

Dr Younis has also made a series of posts on social media, which Jewish campaign groups claim are anti-Semitic.

On Oct 4 last year, he wrote in part of a post on X: “Israel is undeniably a racist apartheid system.”

In another post, from June 8 last year, Dr Younis stated that “our work isn’t done until all Zionists are removed from our institutions and are shamed, alongside all racists, into nothingness”. On May 27, in part of a post, he claimed that “our healthcare institutions have a Zionism problem”.

Dr Younis shared a post from June 9 last year regarding the kidnapping of Israeli hostages by Palestinian terrorist groups, which said: “If you don’t like how occupied people do resistance, don’t do occupation.”

Earlier this year, Dr Younis wrote a report on the psychological impact of Palestinian dispossession, which was submitted in support of the legal bid to lift the UK’s ban on the terror group Hamas.

He was due to speak at an Islamophobia panel at the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), but the session was scrapped after a Jewish student complained.

So someone, finally, blinked.

Caroline Turner, chief executive of UK Lawyers for Israel, which highlighted Dr Younis’s social media history, told The Telegraph: “We are particularly concerned about the conduct of Dr Tarek Younis, which we believe amounts to discrimination, racism and anti-Semitism.

“Over the past year or longer, Dr Younis has published a number of anti-Semitic and highly offensive posts on social media, which include justifying the commission of international crimes and terror attacks against Jews and Israelis, and spreading other racist and discriminatory content.

“The public display of racism and anti-Semitism shown by Dr Younis on his social media page confirms that he has violated a number of UCL’s policies and should be subject to disciplinary action following a thorough investigation into his conduct.”…

A UCL spokesman said: “We have a long-established process for external speaker bookings that helps ensure hundreds of these events can take place at UCL each year, in line with our deep commitment to free speech, while also ensuring the safety and security of all those who attend.

“Whenever we receive a complaint, it is investigated through our normal processes and we will take any action, as is necessary.”

Translation: go away, we're not interested.

Middlesex University was approached for comment.

But couldn't be bothered to reply.