Worker wins right to hold anti-Zionist views

Academic was discriminated against for his political opinion

- FRANCESCA ABBOTT

DAVID Miller was a social science professor at the University of Bristol, with a special research interest in propaganda, lobbying and the structures of power.

He was sacked from his post at the university in 2021 for holding anti-Zionist views.

Prof. Miller was subject to no fewer than three separate investigations by his university, for alleged 'anti-semitism', for espousing the belief that Zionism is 'inherently racist, imperialist, and colonial'.

The first complaint against him was made by an Israeli lobby group in 2019, shortly after his arrival, but the complaint was rejected.