Jihad Apologists Hold 3-Day Conference at UK University
12th June 2015
The publicly-funded University of Bath has hosted what it calls a conference on “Understanding Conflict,” featuring a number of controversial speakers. They include Norman Finkelstein, who has publicly stated that “every victory by Hezbollah over Israel is also a victory for liberty and a victory for freedom,” and Moazzam Begg, the leader of the infamous CAGE group, which called ISIS murderer Jihadi John a “beautiful young man.”
The three-day conference, which began on Monday, was opened by David Miller, whose now-defunct NeoConEurope website previously hosted anti-Semitic articles. Miller is also the sometime editor of the SpinWatch website, which draws together a broad conspiracy theory about ‘NeoCons’ and ‘Zionists’ – coincidentally, two core themes of the University of Bath conference this week.
Speakers at the conference, which was hosted in the Chancellors’ Building, travelled from all across the world. It is unclear whether public money was spent on flights and accommodation for the speakers, though it is common practice for the hosting organisation to cover such costs.
This means the likes of Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo detainee, and Anas Al-Tikriti, the president of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Cordoba Foundation, may be on the receiving end of taxpayer- and tuition-funded hospitality.
When only one side is fighting a war, guess who wins?