“Do you think that Palestine can be liberated without the Islamic Republic of Iran? Of course it can’t,” said David Miller during a recent televised discussion.
By United with Israel Staff
An academic described by the UK’s Jewish Chronicle (JC) as a “disgraced anti-Zionist” recently shocked a televised panel discussion with his positions on Iran’s wave of popular protests, which seek regime change in the face of several high-profile murders of innocent women.
The discussion was televised on Red Line TV and included comments by Miller denying that Mahsa Amini was murdered, the JC reported. In reality, Amini was arrested for not wearing a hijab and died in custody, with all evidence pointing to brutal treatment at the hands of regime thugs as her cause of death.
According to Miller, “[W]hat was happening in Iran was ‘an armed insurrection from the outside which is being directed by the US and by Israel through their proxies.'”
Miller added, “Do you think that Palestine can be liberated without the Islamic Republic of Iran? Of course it can’t. It’s absurd – an absurd position.”
While he served as a professor of political sociology at the University of Bristol, he was fired in October 2021 after an internal investigation found he “did not meet the standards of behaviour [we] expect from [our] staff.”
According to the JC, the specific comments that ended Miller’s career at the university were references to Jewish students as “pawns” of the state of Israel and his call for “an end to Zionism as a functioning ideology in the world”.
Miller claimed there is an “all-out onslaught by the Israeli government, mainly through the ministry of strategic affairs but also other ministries too, on the left globally,” accusing Israelis of trying “to impose their will all over the world.”