University College London has barred an academic and suspended the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine after video footage showed the academic repeating antisemitic conspiracy theories in a lecture to the group.

Samar Maqusi was speaking to the SJP chapter on Tuesday when she made the comments, according to footage shared by the U.K. branch of the pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs, which said one of its members had been filming. The lecture, titled “The Birth of Zionism,” was the first in a planned five-part series called “Palestine: From Existence to Resistance.”

In one comment , Maqusi says, falsely, that “the Jews pretty much controlled the financialization structure” during Napoleon’s time and that he advocated for Jewish control of Palestine because he was pa

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