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Ethnically cleansing the Jews? Yes, I think you'll find that's antisemitic.

By theedgeofwhere, May 6, 2010

Today I lost a little faith in the police.

Remember the story about Noor Rashid? He was the student accused of shouting 'slay the Jews' at the Oxford Union some months ago. (I wrote about it on my blog here: http://theedgeofwhere.blogspot.com/2010/02/death-to-jews-at-oxford-union...).

Well according to today's Oxford Student , after watching a video of his outburst the police concluded that they 'could not find any evidence' of hate speech.

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‘Itbah Al-Yahud’ or ‘Khaybar ya Yahod’ – what was actually said at the Oxford Union?

By theedgeofwhere, February 11, 2010

In a previous post on my blog I gave my account of the abuse levelled at Danny Ayalon, the Israeli deputy foreign minister, when he spoke at the Oxford Union. As has been widely reported, one student stormed out the room shouting in Arabic and, according to Ayalon, had said ‘itbah Al-Yahud’, meaning ‘Kill the Jews’.

Since then one person has commented on my post to contest the translation:

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