If I didn’t tell you professor Michael Ben-Gad was an Israeli, you could probably figure it out from his response to a hate-filled campaign to drive him out of his job at City St George’s, University of London. On Wednesday, a masked, keffiyeh-wearing mob stormed his lecture hall and helpfully filmed themselves doing so. Asked for his response to the intimidation tactics, Ben-Gad told Sky News: ‘Their video is on social media and it makes for difficult viewing. They captured me in profile. I need to lose weight.’

It’s a very Israeli response. The economics don is being targeted because, as an Israeli youth in the 1980s, he did his compulsory service in the Israel Defence Forces. Forty years on, he is seeing posters around campus with his face on a red-spattered background under the wor

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