Cambridge University: Israel is a ‘Rogue State’

Rehmet

Posted on March 12, 2015

On March 5, 2015, one of UK’s prestigious University of Cambridge voted overwhelmingly in favor of the motion, “This House Believes Israel is a ‘Rogue State’,” at the Cambridge Union Society. The motion was proposed by British journalist Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of Tony Blair, ex-prime minister of UK. She converted to Islam in 2010. Listen the debate below.

The Cambridge Union Society was founded in 1815. Its most notable past speakers included UK’s prime minister Winston Churchill, US president and Hollywood star Ronald Reagan, Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama and Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.

In a packed debating chamber 51% students voted in favor of the motion, 19% voted against it while 30% abstained.

The proposition team included American academic professor Norman Finkelstein, author of one the best book on Holocaust, The Holocaust Industry; Palestinian academic professor Ghada Karmi (University of Exeter) and Jewish human rights activist Ben White.

The opposition team was lead by Vivian Wineman, president of UK’s powerful Jewish Lobby, the Board of Deputies of British Jews. She was assisted by Hannah Weisfelt, director of Israel lobby Jewish group Yachad and Davis Lewin, deputy director of another Israeli advocacy Jewish group, Henry Jackson Society.

Ben White’s views of the pathetic rants made by Wineman, Weisfelt and Lewin can be read here.

American academic and former special envoy of UNHRC in Palestine Richard Falk (Jewish), Talmiz Ahmad, former Indian diplomat, Gregory Shupak, lecturer at University of Guelph-Humber, Toronto, and Israeli academic professor IIan Pappe (University of Exeter, UK) have all called Israel Rogue State.

On December 4, 2013, American Jewish scholar, Dr. Noam Chomsky, called both the US and the Zionist entity Rogue States for their double standards over Iran’s nuclear program.

“There are in fact two rogue states operating in the region, resorting to aggression and terror and violating international law at will: the United States and its Israeli client. Iran has indeed carried out an act of aggression: conquering three Arab islands under the US-backed Shah. But any terror credibly attributed to Iran pales in comparison with that of the rogue states,” Chomsky said.

Stephen Lendman, an American Jewish writer, called Israel rogue state on December 23, 2013.

“Israel is no democracy. It never was. For sure it’s not now. Its current government is its worse ever. It’s dominated by right-wing (fanatic Zionist Jews),” he said.

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