Bristol University professor sacked for anti-Zionist views wins discrimination case
Louisa Clarence-Smith | 5 February 2024 | The Telegraph
A Bristol University professor sacked for his anti-Zionist views was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has found. Professor David Miller successfully claimed discrimination based on his philosophical belief that Zionism is inherently racist, imperialist and colonial. Lawyers representing Prof Miller said the judgment established for the first time that anti-Zionist beliefs are protected in the workplace. Prof Miller was employed by the University of Bristol as a professor of political sociology in 2018, until he was dismissed in 2021. He sparked anger among Jewish students in 2019 when a slideshow for one of his lectures described parts of the “Zionist movement” as one of the “five pillars” of Islamophobia.