Zionism is a racist fascist cult’: Israeli Embassy’s fury after anti-Semitic hate speaker gives talk at a top London university

From the Daily Mail

The Israeli Embassy has reacted with fury after a ‘hate speaker’ delivered an hour-long rant on Jews and Zionism to students at a top London university. 

Thomas Suarez described the creation of Israel as a ‘racist’, ‘fascist’ endeavour, and linked the ‘cult’ of Zionism to the Nazis. He told the students: ‘Only when Zionism’s exposed as the racial fascist movement that it is will Britain be forced to distance itself from the Balfour Declaration.’

Mr Suarez – a professional violinist who has written a book on Israel – also described Zionism as ‘parallel to Nazism’ and accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust.

Here are some quotes from his speech at SOAS on November 3. These were compiled by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism. 

‘Zionists are so terrified of daylight on their cult, that there are moves afoot to outlaw any derogatory reference of the word.’

‘The idea of going somewhere where one could act out racial superiority was seductive.’ (On the Jews moving to Israel)

Yiftah Curiel, spokesman for Israel’s diplomatic mission, accused SOAS of letting ‘racist conspiracy theories’ go unchallenged during the talk at the Palestine Society

The university responded by saying the event was organised independently by the Students’ Union and it wanted to maintain a ‘neutral platform’ for different opinions.

Mr Curiel’s comments have led to the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism filing a formal complaint with the university.