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Professor David Miller is the latest academic the Israel lobby wants censored and sacked. (CAGE/YouTube) Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public sphere by the state of Israel and its advocates. Meaningful conversations about anti-Black racism and Islamophobia have been drowned out by a concerted lobbying campaign targeting universities, political parties, the equalities regulator and public institutions all over the country. Earlier this month, the newly elected secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, Zara Mohammed, was set upon by two of the most energetic Zionist campaigners in British public life (Laura Marks and BBC presenter Emma Barnett) within days of taking up her position. ....
LESSWRONG 34 In the past few years I ve gone from being almost entirely dismissive of religion to being much more uncertain and equivocal. In particular, I ve become much warier of implicitly judging The Old Ways against modern conditions and assumptions. These changes happened partly because I heard Jordan Peterson manage to give Sam Harris a couple of decent counterarguments, and partly due to various other things in the air such as The Secret of Our Success and Doesn t Matter, Warm Fuzzies. I think this arc of beliefs is familiar to many of you. But I feel that we re now missing something else. ....