The religious organization Quakers in Britain is standing by its cancellation of a booking for an event on Palestine at one of its meeting houses in Scotland earlier this week.
The decision came after a smear campaign against the main speaker David Miller, falsely accusing him of anti-Jewish bigotry.
This capitulation is a slap in the face to Palestinians and to the long tradition of Quaker solidarity and support for Palestinian rights. It is also being criticized by another major Quaker group.
Campaign Against Antisemitism, a right-wing Israel lobby group whose head of “political investigations” took credit for the political destruction of Jeremy Corbyn –
— source electronicintifada.net | Ali Abunimah | 30 Sep 2022