Ronnie Fraser

Ronnie Fraser is Director of the Academic Friends of Israel. He has written about his legal action against the UCU in the forthcoming book, Anti-Zionism on Campus to be published in May by the Indiana University Press

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The government was right to scrap the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act. Here’s why.

The last government’s legislation placed freedom of speech above the protection of students

By Ronnie Fraser

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Demo at University College London (UCL) main entrance, on May 3, 2024 (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Demonstrators hold a placard urging the international community to take action against Israel's settlement policy in the occupied territories as left-wing Israeli and foreign peace activists join Palestinians in a protest in the Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on November 04, 2009. According to Israeli radio, about 200 people protestested in Sheikh Jarrah against what they call the "Judaisation" of Arab east Jerusalem and the ongoing construction of Jewish settlements in the Jerusalem area. BDS is a campaign calling for "boycott, deinvestment and sanctions" against Israel. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON (Photo credit should read GALI TIBBON/AFP via Getty Images)

For all the noise its supporters make, BDS has been a failure

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Hundreds of Palestinian nationals and pro-Palestinian activists gathered at Times Square on May 18, 2018 to support the ongoing struggle in Israeli-occupied territories . (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)

Israel hatred on campus 'mirrors what happened in my trade union'

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Why the Corbynites won't accept the antisemitism definition

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