UK university rebuffs call by Israel lobby to cancel conference

‘Southampton University has rejected calls to cancel a conference on Israel and international law, after the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) said it would “have a detrimental impact on cohesiveness.”

The conference, ‘International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism’, is billed as “the first of its kind”, and is being organised by Southampton-based academic and former Israeli Oren Ben-Dor, and Palestinian-American law professor George Bisharat.

According to the Jewish News, several “Jewish community leaders” have expressed their “opposition” to the conference and “lodged protests with the university’s vice-chancellor.”‘

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