Miller wins landmark anti-Zionism appeal
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Academic David Miller’s explosive win this morning against Bristol University’s attempt to overturn an employment tribunal finding has shown how comprehensively the university’s appeal was defeated.
The university sacked anti-Zionist professor Miller after an Israel lobby pressure campaign. To do so, it ignored two separate investigations by its own lawyers that concluded Miller had said nothing antisemitic in his critiques of Zionism and Israel lobby pressure.
Comprehensive failure
But to justify its appeal, the university put together a Byzantine document. It contained nine ‘grounds of appeal’, most of which were subdivided into smaller grounds – and some of those divided again. Yet every single one was rejected this morning by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). The win enshrines anti-Zionism as protected belief under equality law – and as legal precedent in future court cases.
