Feb 13, 2011

#BDS: Edinburgh University Students Protest Hosting of Israeli diplomat

Ishmael Khaldi (centre, blue shirt) is surrounded by shouting pro-Palestinian activists in Edinburgh
                             Ishmael Khaldi (centre, blue shirt) is     surrounded by shouting pro-Palestinian activists in Edinburgh

"A university has pledged to take action after the Israeli Foreign Ministry's most senior Muslim diplomat faced a student mob which shouted him down and called him a Nazi.
Ishmael Khaldi had to be surrounded by security guards as he began to speak at Edinburgh University last week.
Protesters marched towards him screaming "Viva, Viva Palestina" and "boycott Israel" as they unfurled Palestinian flags.
At one stage the mic was ripped from his lectern and a demonstrator shouted: "We don't discuss with the Ku Klux Klan, why should we discuss with this thug?"
Mr Khaldi, a Galilee Bedouin who serves as an adviser to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, was back in Israel this week. He did not want to discuss the incident in detail, but said: "There's no other humiliating, insulting and hurtful experience like this."
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