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A UK professor who moderated a panel that kicked off Israeli Apartheid Week at University College London (UCL) this week toldThe Algemeinerwhy he considers Zionism a racist ideology.

Dr. Saladin Meckled-Garcia, director of UCLs Institute forHuman Rights, explained that Jewish statismputs nationalism of aparticular group above the basic human rights of others. I do notbelieve anyone has a right to do that.

I have never challenged the right of the state of Israel to exist, and hope that one day it lives up to the ideal of being a democratic state that upholds the human rights and equality of all its citizens, he added.

March 2, 2017 9:29 pm

Meckled-Garcia also saidthatheopened the UCL IAW program titled Apartheid: Stories From The Ground, and hosted by the schoolsFriends of Palestine Society withcomments critical of the British governmentsrecently adopted definition of antisemitism, and accompanying examples of what constitutes [it]. He has expressed this view publicly, he added,such as when he recentlysigned his name to a letter, together with 243 other UK academics, statingthe definition which includes demonization and delegitimization of Israel silenced free speech.

UCL Jewish Society president Joshua Gross called Meckled-Garcias suggestionthat Israel is not a democracy and does not strive to uphold human rights a vacant charge.

Anyone with an objective view need only take a quick glance at thestate of Israel and they can see it is a bastion of democracy in a region bereft of such, Gross said. Israel is a state thatendeavors to protect the equality and fundamental human rights of all its citizens.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) told The Algemeinerthat Mondays program which was organizedby a student currently under investigation for antisemitism and included a panelist who reportedlyshared a video alleging Jews control societys power structures is an example of howUCL has failed its Jewish students again.

AUCL spokesperson insisted,IAW is a student society initiative; it is not the universitys. They have a code of practice on what is permissible and what is not, but basically it will be free speech within the law. But again it is not our event as a university.

Last year, UCL was the scene of an extreme protest of an Israel-related event, in which Jewish students were forced to barricade themselves in a lecture halland wait for a police escort to bring them safely out of a building filled with demonstrators, The Algemeinerreported. UCL recently concludedan investigation into the incident, determining thatsome protesters had been violent and chanted slogans that could be considered antisemitic.

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