So often Israel’s enemies accuse Israel of attempting to crush freedom of speech and of employing disproportionate force and violence against her opponents. This, they tell us, is at the root of their opposition to the Jewish State. How then are we to understand the recent events at Manchester University? Although it seems to have provoked zero interest from the main stream British media last week Talya Lador-Fresher, no less than Israel’s deputy Ambassador to the UK, was violently set upon by pro-Palestinian activists as she attempted to get to her car.
Even once inside the vehicle she was not safe from the crowed as two particularly diligent ‘freedom fighters’ climbed upon the car bonnet and attempted to smash the windscreen so as to get to the Deputy Ambassador. Clearly the demonstrators were particularly adamant that they enter into peaceful dialogue with the Israeli diplomat.
What had Mrs Lador-Fresher done to provoke such enthusiasm? Well for the second time she had attempted to take up Manchester University’s invitation to speak to its students. Her first attempt to do this back in February had to be entirely aborted when three hundred protestors from Action Palestine descended on the venue and prevented the Deputy Ambassador from speaking before throwing in a little grappling with the police and local Jewish students just for good measure. This time Mrs Lador-Fresher had successfully managed to address her audience but then afterwards the protestors discovered her dastardly attempt to get away unharmed.
If the Deputy Ambassador of Libya or North Korea had have come to speak at Manchester University could they have expected even half such a reception? I very much doubt it. What passes through the mind of anyone who attempts to argue that the people who attempted to so savagely attack this Israeli diplomat were acting to stop violence, oppression or the curtailing of civil liberties? What kind of acrobatics of moral inversion do such apologists have to undertake? These protestors aren’t people interested in ending an occupation or freeing a nation, these are brutal radicals for whom the ends will always justify the means. That end is the destruction of the Jewish State and if they must fight for it on a university campus in northern England rather than in West Bank villages then so be it!
Even once inside the vehicle she was not safe from the crowed as two particularly diligent ‘freedom fighters’ climbed upon the car bonnet and attempted to smash the windscreen so as to get to the Deputy Ambassador. Clearly the demonstrators were particularly adamant that they enter into peaceful dialogue with the Israeli diplomat.
What had Mrs Lador-Fresher done to provoke such enthusiasm? Well for the second time she had attempted to take up Manchester University’s invitation to speak to its students. Her first attempt to do this back in February had to be entirely aborted when three hundred protestors from Action Palestine descended on the venue and prevented the Deputy Ambassador from speaking before throwing in a little grappling with the police and local Jewish students just for good measure. This time Mrs Lador-Fresher had successfully managed to address her audience but then afterwards the protestors discovered her dastardly attempt to get away unharmed.
If the Deputy Ambassador of Libya or North Korea had have come to speak at Manchester University could they have expected even half such a reception? I very much doubt it. What passes through the mind of anyone who attempts to argue that the people who attempted to so savagely attack this Israeli diplomat were acting to stop violence, oppression or the curtailing of civil liberties? What kind of acrobatics of moral inversion do such apologists have to undertake? These protestors aren’t people interested in ending an occupation or freeing a nation, these are brutal radicals for whom the ends will always justify the means. That end is the destruction of the Jewish State and if they must fight for it on a university campus in northern England rather than in West Bank villages then so be it!
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