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Jewish students angry over being denied access to Hen Mazzig talk at UCL

The ex-IDF commander's upcoming talk will be restricted to the university's students and faculty only

January 9, 2018 13:34
Hen Mazzig, left, has been invited back to UCL for the first time since October 2016 (Photo credit: @HenMazzig, Getty Images)
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A university’s plan to host an Israeli speaker whose previous talk was halted by anti-Zionist protests has drawn an angry reaction from Jewish students who will be barred from the event.

A University College London spokesman explained that the university has “maintained from the start” that it would be a UCL-only event, which means students from other universities will not be able to buy tickets.

He added that it would not be appropriate to alter its plans since the investigation into the disturbance at the 2016 talk criticised “late changes made” to arrangements for the event.

This week the university invited activist and ex-IDF commander Hen Mazzig back to its campus after his October 2016 talk, jointly organised by the UCL Friends of Israel and the King’s College London Israel Society, was abandoned after demonstrators stormed the venue.