NUS president targeted by Zionists

Dallali tweeted: "on the first day of Islamophobia Awareness Month I find out I have been dismissed through Twitter".

The sacking of Dallali is the culmination of a massive campaign of smears, intimidation and bullying by the Zionist movement.

The National Union of Students has been under sustained pressure from the Zionist movement and its assets since March this year when she was elected.

Students at 23 universities wrote a joint statement denouncing the smear campaign and the harassment of Shaima after she was wrongfully accused of antisemitism.

But the NUS buckled early on. The Zionist Union of Jewish Students stated: "We call on Shaima and her team to ensure that NUS becomes a space Jewish students once more feel welcomed into rather than sidelined and excluded".

Accepting the dishonest statements of the UJS at face value the National Union of Students apologized, saying it was so sorry to particularly Jewish students who have been hurt and that they sought “to ensure Jewish students feel welcome in our spaces”.

But Zionist students will never feel welcome or included in anti racist spaces, since Zionism is an intrinsically racist ideology. This compromise with racism set in train the inevitable process of removing the democratically elected president of the NUS.

An independent investigation led by Rebecca Tuck QC was announced. The NUS board stated it worked closely with the Union of Jewish Students to make the appointment and agree the terms of reference.

In other words, the Zionists were able to vet both the terms of the investigation, and the person appointed to conduct it. The terms themselves were prejudicially written to express the fabricated antisemitism witch hunt.

The appointed QC was inevitably predisposed to finding against Dallali because she's a Zionist. Her public statements reveal that she has a clear and partisan opinion on the issue of antisemitism in universities.

Before making her Twitter account private following her appointment Tuck shared the Times article on May 23 2021 titled, "I'm an English student. It's not my job as a Jew to answer for Israel over Gaza".

Tuck wrote that she was "shocked and saddened by the university experience of the children I've watched grow up in my community as proud Jews now hiding their identities". In June 2021 Tuck co authored an article titled "Antisemitism in the workplace", which defended the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Zionist friendly definition, which equates targeting of Israel as a nation with antisemitism.

The next step for Dallali is to fight back against these decisions with a legal and political challenge.

David Miller is an academic and former professor at Bristol University, a leading British scholarly critic of Israel. He's also the co founder and co director of the lobbying watchdog Spin Watch.

Ibrahim Abul-Essad, is a UK based Palestinian researcher and activist. He obtained his master's degree in Middle East Studies from Leiden University specializing in the formation of Palestine since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Ibrahim was the first writer to expose the conflicts of interests of the lawyer who undertook the investigation into Shaima Dallali for the National Union of Students.

David, tell us about this tweet that Shaima posted when she was just 17 years old which she subsequently apologized for.