Officials at a British university ordered its student union to invite an Israeli official to take part in a student debate. The authorities at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies said not allowing Roey Gilad, an official at the Israeli embassy in London, to take part in a debate later this month would have amounted to censorship.
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