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Pro-Israel lawyers 'demand damages' from university over ambassador's cancelled talk

But City, University of London hits back, saying there was 'insufficient time to agree and arrange appropriate security measures'

December 6, 2018 16:23
Mark Regev, the Israeli ambassador to the UK
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A group of pro-Israel lawyers have “demanded damages” from City, University of London over a cancelled talk by the Israeli ambassador, blaming it on the institution’s failure to make special security arrangements.

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) wrote to the university’s president, Sir Paul Curran, this week to demand “a public admission… that it acted illegally” in refusing to provide security officials with handheld metal detectors.

The Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and UKLFI have claimed that last month’s planned talk by Mark Regev, the Israeli ambassador to Britain, was cancelled on police advice.

UKLFI also demanded that the university take steps to “secure freedom of speech at meetings of its Israel and Jewish Societies”, as well as damages to be donated to charity.