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http://www.enews20.com/news_Riot_Stirs_at_Oxford_Freedom_of_Speech_Debate_04018.html

 The forum was organised to discuss the motion, “This House believes that even extremists should be entitled to free speech.”

The head of the Oxford Union is Luke Tryl, a prominent member of Conservative Future, the Tory Party’s youth organisation. He justified the invitation on the grounds that “these people are not being given a platform to extol their views, but are coming to talk about the limits of free speech”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/nov2007/oxfo-n28.shtml

… it took just a handful of complaints from pro-Zionists such as Harvard Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz that the debate was “unbalanced” for Tryl to disinvite Finkelstein.

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