Countdown’s Rachel Riley to speak at JSoc rally protesting Bristol Uni’s David Miller
David Miller has been accused of targeting Jewish students
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Rachel Riley will be speaking at an online rally, organised by the Bristol Jewish Society (JSoc) and the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), in protest at sociology professor David Miller’s comments that targeted Jewish students at Bristol Uni.
The JSoc and UJS rally is taking place on Facebook Live and Twitter at 5pm today, and is aimed at pressuring Bristol Uni to take action against the professor, using the tagline and hashtag “Hate Off Campus”.
Bristol Uni was heavily criticised in a Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and Bristol Jewish Society (JSoc) online rally this evening, with campaigners saying that Bristol Uni’s “silence” on Professor David Miller has “legitimised” antisemitic abuse of Jewish students.
The speakers did not hold back on their calls for action from the university, with Rachel Riley commenting in her speech that their inaction “legitimised and empowered” the abuse and antisemitism directed at “young Jewish people at Bristol University”.
The live stream was watched live by over 1,000 people on Facebook and Twitter, with the vast majority flooding the comments with messages of allyship and solidarity.
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A University of Bristol professor has come under fire for unacceptable statements about Israel and Jewish students.
Bristol Uni has responded to the outrage over Professor David Miller’s widely condemned comments about Jewish students, saying in a statement: “We do not endorse the comments made by Professor Miller about our Jewish students.”
Following huge public backlash to comments made by David Miller, a sociology professor at Bristol Uni, and “a significant number of calls for Professor David Miller to be dismissed”, the university has defended itself, saying that it cannot unilaterally fire a member of staff, adding: “Any action which we might take as an employer is a private matter.”
They cite employment law as the reason the member of staff cannot be dismissed, but did not comment on any potential internal processes as a result of these recent comments.