Jewish Professor Threatened With Beheading During Class at London University

A Jewish Israeli professor teaching at City St George’s, University of London, says he was threatened with beheading by a pro-Palestinian agitator who stormed his lecture earlier this week.

Professor Michael Ben-Gad, an economics lecturer and former IDF soldier who served from 1982 to 1985, told Sky News that masked activists barged into his classroom, shouting insults and calling him a “war criminal” and “Nazi.”

“They refused to leave. They were masked. One of them made a threat about having my head chopped off,” Ben-Gad recounted.

The demonstrators, who identified themselves as members of City Action for Palestine, accused Ben-Gad of being part of the “genocide in Gaza.” They also shouted slogans such as “Shame, this lecturer served in the IOF [Israel Occupation Forces]” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Protesters claimed the university should not employ anyone who served in the Israeli military, particularly during the 1982 First Lebanon War.

Ben-Gad, who has been teaching at the university since 2008 and formerly chaired his department, made clear that he will not be silenced. “These modern Brownshirts are not going to send me into hiding. I’m an unapologetic Israeli patriot, and no one is going to intimidate me,” he said.

He added that while living in Britain is a privilege, “these people hate Britain’s civility, freedom and tolerance as much as they hate Israel and Jews.”