London – A radical student leader who dismissed the violent tuition fees protests as ‘a few smashed windows’ has been accused of making anti-Semitic comments on a social networking site.
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Mature student Clare Solomon, 37, president of the University of London Union, helped co-ordinate the protests – during which a car carrying Prince Charles and Camilla was attacked – and declared herself proud of the students.
Now there are calls for Ms Solomon, the daughter of a Royal Military policeman, to resign after she wrote on Facebook: ‘The view that Jews have been persecuted all throughout history is one that has been fabricated in the last 100 or so years to justify the persecution of Palestinians.
‘To paint the picture that all Jews have always had to flee persecution is just plainly inaccurate.’
Carly McKenzie, a campaigns officer for the Union of Jewish Students, said: ‘We have lost confidence in her ability to represent Jewish students.
‘To claim that Jewish suffering is a deliberate fabrication goes beyond ignorance into real malice.
‘Her remarks had nothing to do with principled opposition to Israel and everything to do with her disdain towards the Jewish people.’
Adam Levine, President of Queen Mary Jewish Society, added: ‘She should find out before she makes such strong comments about what it means to be Jewish.’
Ms Solomon, who was raised as a Mormon, declined to comment when contacted by The Mail on Sunday but told the Jewish Chronicle newspaper: ‘This badly worded comment was something that I wrote in haste on Facebook. I’m sorry for any misunderstandings.’
Every soineh yisroel says the same” I was misunderstood”. Look at the Machsheife Helen Thomas. After apologizing she is now more vehement than ever! Eisav is Eisav!!!
Wrote in haste but is her gut feeling for Jews. Look at these protestors; they are on the whole rubbish people who want to over throw the society. They want something for nothing at somebody’s elses expense. If they have time to protest they have time to do part time work to help pay for the their university
“Mature student Clare Solomon, 37”.
What the heck is a “mature student”? For starters, her actions and comments are anything but mature. In addition, if she is truly still a student, at age 37, then when does she plan to actually grow-up?
Pathetic indeed!
don’t be sorry and get your “face” out of the school system
Jimmy the Anti-Semite, Carter also said that he was sorry and then went back to his Anti-Semitic ways. The same is true about this miserable low-life. Maybe she should get a job instead of being a “mature student”. Is she that stupid that at age 37 she is still a student? Based on her stupid comments, she really is that stupid.
If she was raised a Mormon, her own study of her Bible should validate the suffering and persecution of Jews up to Beis Hasheini.
remember the leaders of the protesters are main anarchist who want to over throw the government and than we can get a universal communist government in which over 100,000,000 people have been killed in the name of . The communist want equality which there has never ever and will never ever be. You have Russia [still communist]; Red China [new name state capitialism which is communism], and Cuba. We have had stalin, mao, che and lenin and it does not work. This lazy 37 student is shooting her mouth off. They should investigate how much benefits she is getting while running around in protest and they should be cut
What’s with her Jewish looks and name?