For those who are yet to see it, footage from a recent event entitled 'The Case for Sanctions and Boycott' (against Israel) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) makes for a pretty astonishing watch.
At the Q & A of the event, a Jewish member of the audience attempts to highlight the fact that one of the speakers, Bongani Masuku, was found guilty by the South African Human Rights commission of making comments of an 'extreme nature that advocate and imply that the Jewish and Israeli community are to be despised, scorned, ridiculed and thus subjecting them to ill-treatment on the basis of their religious affiliation'.
Regardless of your stance on Israel-Palestine, I would hope that this kind of judgement would make most audiences think twice about the worth of the speaker that they were listening to.
Suffice to say it does not. Unless there are suddenly a lot of audience members who happen to be staunch critics of the value of judgements given by the South African Human Rights commission, the video would appear to show - on a British university campus, in 2009 - a man getting verbally bullied for having a Jewish surname.
The question begins at 4:45 minutes in.
