Professor prosecuted over tweets calling for Jews to be ‘de-Zionised'

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An academic is facing a private prosecution over social media posts calling for Jews to be 'de-Zionised'.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has brought three charges against Prof David Miller over posts on X.
They allege that he used a public communications network to send messages of a menacing character, contrary to the Communications Act 2003.
Prof Miller was previously found to have been unfairly and wrongfully dismissed by the University of Bristol in October 2021 after making comments criticising Israel.
The CAA said the first message was posted on Nov 8 last year in relation to a discussion on violence in Amsterdam after a football match involving an Israeli team.
It said: 'Last night's response by the brave Muslim communities of Amsterdam was necessary, but extremely measured and not at all proportional to the genocidal violence unleashed by Zionist terrorists on the Levant, on Muslims worldwide, or indeed in the provocations that preceded the measured response. Future incidents will likely involve a more proportional response.
'As well as being unwelcoming to Zionist colonists coming from Occupied Palestine, Europe must be unviable as a base for Zionist terror by Jewish supremacists who have infiltrated and are camouflaged among us.
'Zionist terrorist entryists must be expunged from European institutions, whether political parties, media, think tanks or elsewhere. Again, either institutions take the lead and conduct this work in orderly fashion with advice from experts on Zionist subversion, or the people will take care of it for them.'
The first hearing is set to take place at Westminster magistrates' court on July 2, HM Courts & Tribunals Service confirmed.
Prof Miller is alleged to have sent another message on March 20, saying: 'Every genuinely anti-Zionist Jew can count on being kept safe by the movement, when the time comes. Every Zionist Jew must be held accountable and de-Zionised. #DismantleZionism.'
On March 24, he is said to have made another post saying: 'Protests are not enough. Listen to our brothers and sisters in Gaza.
'Those who are interested in ending this genocide must begin by targeting those responsible near them: the entire Zionist movement globally must live in fear of accountability until it is dismantled and its ideology eradicated. And let's be clear, there are Zionists everywhere. In every town and city. Find out where they are. #DismantleZionism.'
He successfully claimed at an employment tribunal last year that he experienced discrimination based on his anti-Zionist belief.
The CAA describes itself as an organisation of volunteers that works to 'expose and counter antisemitism through education and zero-tolerance enforcement of the law'.
Prof Miller has been approached for comment.
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