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This sad event adds to the mounting evidence of a serious threat to academic freedom and, more in general, freedom of speech. Dame Jenny Tonge has been a tireless and articulate advocate of Palestinian human rights and has been a vocal critic of Israeli state abuses and breaches of international law. Is this what has now become 'antisemitism'?
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24 October 2018
Marco Chiesa
Consultant Psychiatrist and Visiting Professor
University College London
Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB
To be precise, this threat to academic freedom of speech, a distinct form of McCarthyism, is being mounted by UK citizens on behalf of a foreign power. In this case a world-famous medical institute the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine - the oldest of its kind in the world - simply rolled over and yielded, as with the Royal Society of Medicine in my own case. What lesson will smaller, less renowned, less influential academic institutions draw from this?
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23 October 2018
derek a summerfield
Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College
Re: Medical institute withdraws peer’s invitation over “allegations of anti-Semitic sentiment”
This sad event adds to the mounting evidence of a serious threat to academic freedom and, more in general, freedom of speech. Dame Jenny Tonge has been a tireless and articulate advocate of Palestinian human rights and has been a vocal critic of Israeli state abuses and breaches of international law. Is this what has now become 'antisemitism'?
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