Attack on Israel’s deputy UK ambassador illustrates growing dangers on the British campus

Robin Shepherd
robinshepherdonline.com
30 April '10
Posted before Shabbat

The appalling events in the north of England on Wednesday night when Israeli Deputy Ambassador to the UK Talya Lador-Fresher was mobbed (photo here) by a frenzied group of extremists outside Manchester University are sadly indicative of the shape of things to come.

Ms. Lador-Fresher’s car was attacked by a group of anti-Israeli protestors who slapped and jumped at her car much in the manner that the police vans carrying child killers are rocked and spat on outside court houses in high profile crime cases.

The attack took place after her talk at the International Politics Society at Manchester University and Ms. Lador-Fresher was only saved from personal injury by a heavy police presence.

Unfortunately this sort of event is an all too frequent occurrence in Britain where violent extremists on the fringes feel that their bigotry is being licensed by the hysterical assault on the legitimacy of the Jewish state in mainstream media and politics.

According to a press statement from the Israeli embassy, Ms. Lador-Fresher said: “It was a thoroughly unpleasant experience. If this is what passes for debate at British universities, it really is a worrying state of affairs.”

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