{"id":178791,"date":"2018-11-08T06:31:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T06:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178791"},"modified":"2018-11-10T05:02:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T05:02:01","slug":"sussex-university-professor-who-claimed-israelis-carried-out-911-must-have-emeritus-status-removed-jewish-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178791","title":{"rendered":"Sussex University professor who claimed Israelis carried out 9\/11 must have emeritus status removed, Jewish group says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Samuel Osborne &#8212; The Independent Nov 7, 2018<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_178793\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Prof-kees-van-der-pijl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178793\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-178793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Prof-kees-van-der-pijl-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Kees van der Pijl. Click to enlarge\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Prof-kees-van-der-pijl-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Prof-kees-van-der-pijl.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-178793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof Kees van der Pijl. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A Jewish group has called on the <strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/UniversityOfSussex\">University of Sussex<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to strip a professor of his emeritus status after he claimed Israelis were\u00a0behind the 11 September attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Professor Kees van der Pijl, who was formerly head of the university\u2019s international relations department, tweeted to say: \u201cNot Saudis, Israelis blew up Twin Towers\u00a0with help from Zionists in US govt\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The professor, who retired in 2012 and now lives in Amsterdam, included a link to an article titled \u201c9-11\/Israel did it\u201d by the conspiracy theory website WikiSpooks.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not Saudis, Israelis blew up Twin Towers  with help from Zionists in US govt<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NUTRhsSrhu\">https:\/\/t.co\/NUTRhsSrhu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Km26Db3zmm\">https:\/\/t.co\/Km26Db3zmm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kees van der Pijl (@KeesvdPijl1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeesvdPijl1\/status\/1058738479872593921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe are concerned by the conspiracy theories that have been tweeted by [Professor van der\u00a0Pijl],\u201d the Sussex Jewish Representative Council said on Twitter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe ask that Sussex University\u00a0investigate immediately and\u00a0consider removing his \u2018emeritas\u2019 status [sic]. This type of hatemongering has no place in society, least of all in academia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are concerned by the conspiracy theories that have been tweeted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SussexUni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SussexUni<\/a> Emeritas Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeesvdPijl1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KeesvdPijl1<\/a>. We ask that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SussexUni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SussexUni<\/a> investigate immediately &amp; consider removing his \u2018emeritas\u2019 status. This type of hatemongering has no place in society, least of all in academia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W8dko0qzLm\">pic.twitter.com\/W8dko0qzLm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sussex Jewish Rep Council (@SussexJewishRep) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SussexJewishRep\/status\/1059773036579164160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The University of Sussex confirmed it was aware of\u00a0Professor van der Pijl\u2019s tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A spokesman said:\u00a0\u201cAs a general rule we don\u2019t comment on the views of former members of staff \u2013 although of course, it goes without saying these are his personal views and he is not representing the views of the University.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He said the emeritus title is automatically bestowed upon any professor who retires but said it was \u201ctoo early to say\u201d whether the university would take such action.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"nl\" dir=\"ltr\">mafklappers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vv9VhgRRuH\">pic.twitter.com\/vv9VhgRRuH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; trapadores (@Trapadores) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Trapadores\/status\/1059472216830697474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SussexUni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SussexUni<\/a> do you accept crazy tinfoilers based on diversity policies?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CJ Brouwer (@Cor_Polisnor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cor_Polisnor\/status\/1059063133992615938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Professor van der Pijl\u2019s tweet drew criticism online, with some users posting pictures of people wearing tin foil hats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Another asked: \u201cSussex University do you accept crazy tinfoilers based on diversity policies?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The Independent\u00a0<\/em>has contacted\u00a0Professor van der Pijl\u00a0for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/sussex-university-world-trade-centre-911-professor-kees-van-der-pijl-israel-tweet-jewish-a8620416\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note that no attempt was made to refute his claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-September_11"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178826,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178791\/revisions\/178826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}