Smadar Bakovic from Neveh Ilan wins campaign against anti-Israel advisor in Warwick University

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LONDON – An Israeli student has successfully challenged a British university that assigned an anti-Israel lecturer as her dissertation supervisor.

Smadar Bakovic from Neveh Ilan was completing a master’s degree in Warwick University’s Department of Politics and International Studies in 2010 when Nicola Pratt, associate professor of international politics of the Middle East, was assigned as her supervisor.

Following an anti-Israel event on campus that Pratt chaired, Bakovic did some research and discovered that Pratt regularly used racist language to describe Israel and was a vocal advocate of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign.

During Operation Cast Lead, Pratt was a signatory to a letter in the Guardian calling for Israel to lose the battle with Hamas, stating that the “massacres in Gaza are the latest phase of a war Israel has waged against the people of Palestine.”

In April 2010, Bakovic wrote to the university to ask if she could be assigned another supervisor in light of Pratt’s anti-Israel stance.

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Smadar Bakovic from Neveh Ilan wins campaign against anti-Israel advisor in Warwick University

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