On episode 47, Asa and Nora speak with David Miller, a sociology professor and leading critic of the Israel lobby who was fired by the University of Bristol on 1 October.
Miller was sacked after a years-long campaign of smears by that same lobby.
He talks about his ongoing work researching the history of Zionism, Israel’s state ideology, and how the lobby’s efforts to smear and silence him have only led him to speak louder.
“I think one of the things which has become clear in this process is that it’s necessary to talk about Zionism,” Miller tells us.
“This is about dismantling ideology,” he says, “the same way as we would talk about dismantling racism – racism is not just a set of ideas. It has material forms and practices.”
He argues that “If you want to dismantle and eradicate Zionism, you have to dismantle the apparatus which puts it in place.”
“The road to socialism in Britain, if there is such a thing, goes through the Zionist movement,” Miller says. “It doesn’t go around it, it goes through the Zionist movement. You can’t go around Zionism.”
With the successful campaign by Israel and its lobby to remove Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, these same forces have now moved on to academia and the rest of the public sphere in Britain.
Miller’s sacking is just the start. He says it is a question of “when people will have the confidence … to fight back and to say no to this? I think we’re in the foothills of this [campaign].”
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