Pro-Israel pressure group UKLFI demands UCU bins pro-Israel pressure motion

Zionist bully-group UKLFI is at it again, despite the referral of its senior lawyers to their regulator for its bullying. The pro-Israel pressure group is upset that the University and College Union (UCU) conference will debate a motion on… pro-Israel pressure. You couldn’t make it up, and you don’t need to.

Motion 52 will call for academic freedom against “Zionist repression” and the “dangers posed by Zionist groups”. No one sensible who has been paying attention could possibly object, which of course means UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) is very offended indeed. So much so that it has resorted to its usual tactics of threatening the union that its motion “could” expose UCU to “claims of unlawful discrimination and harassment under the Equality Act 2010”.

Antisemitic argument from UKLFI

To leap to this “could”, UKLFI resorts to the “usual Zionist pressure group” tactic of treating all Jewish people as though they are inherent supporters of the genocidal apartheid colony. Therefore, it argues, rejecting Zionism and its tactics is discriminatory against Jews. Being hostile to a racist, murderous, land-thieving ideology would be a “hostile environment” for Jews. It’s hard to see any way in which the whole argument is not antisemitic, but it’s about par for the course.

UCU’s ‘leadership’ is showing signs of caving to the Zionist pressure group and pulling the motion about Zionist pressure. A better course of action would be to point out that UKLFI’s ‘name’ barristers have been referred to the Bar Standards Board for undue use of their seniority to validate intimidation and ‘lawfare’.

UCU could also point out that UKLFI’s track record is littered with cases of blatant lawfare and intimidation against doctors and Muslim NHS staff, Palestinian children, artists and their art. Even media giant Netflix and – reportedly – the late far-right influencer Charlie Kirk when he was wavering on Israel just before his murder.

For good measure, it could add that UKLFI has also been referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority and called one of two of the UK’s two main “apartheid apologist” groups.

And for good measure, they could remind the friends of genocide group that UCU humiliated their fellow Israel fanatic John Mann and others when they tried to smear the union as antisemitic. Tribunal judges found the case against UCU to be:

without substance … devoid of any merit … palpably groundless … untenable … obviously hopeless.

“Sorry saga” of political litigation

And the panel of judges had more to say about what they described as a “sorry saga” of an attempt to use litigation for

Lessons should be learned from this sorry saga. We greatly regret that the case was ever brought. At heart, it represents an impermissible attempt to achieve a political end by litigious means. It would be very unfortunate if an exercise of this sort were ever repeated.

UKLFI appears not to have learned. Will the UCU management have the courage to do the right thing and send the would-be intimidators away with a union-sized flea in their collective ear? Or will they make the craven mistake of so many before and capitulate to the – yep – “Zionist pressure”?

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