Mick Hartley

So what happened at that Oxford Union debate? – the one about Israel being a greater threat than Iran to stability in the Middle East. Well, of course:

The Oxford Union has voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of a motion declaring Israel a greater “threat to regional stability” than Iran.

At a debate on Thursday night between Hillel Neuer, the director of UN Watch, and Mohammad Shtayyeh, a former Palestinian Authority prime minister, the latter claimed that “Israel is an expansionist colonial state that has been established by colonial powers”.

Mr Shtayyeh went on to describe Israel as a “pariah state” that “should be stopped”….

“Brutal occupation, crimes and genocide. [Israel is] dragging the region into repeated conflicts… Israel is causing misery, genocide. [It has an] expansionist, colonial mentality.”

They lap this stuff up, the idiot academic left. Islamists are freedom-fighting heroes: Jews (“Zios”) are pariahs.

Mr Neuer later posted on X: “In my debate tonight at the Oxford Union, I said that their proposition – ‘Israel is a greater threat to regional stability than Iran’ – struck me as deep satire, but then I recalled that 501 of their members voted to back the student chair who cheered the killing of Charlie Kirk.”

Last month, George Abaraonye, the president-elect of the Oxford Union, was ousted following outrage over his apparent celebration of Kirk’s shooting.

Last year, the Oxford Union voted that “Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide” by a majority of 278 to 59.