An interesting email re the London School of Economics

DISGRACED JOURNALIST RESIGNS JUST HOURS AFTER APPOINTMENT TO LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

In a speedy turn of events, the journalist Nir Rosen has resigned his position from the London School of Economics.  The original story follows below.  A statement from the London School of Economics said, “Nir Rosen today resigned his temporary visiting fellowship at LSE - which was an unpaid position. LSE had already made clear it condemned the offensive comments he made about Lara Logan and others."

Raheem Kassam, Director of Student Rights said, “It is an incredible U-turn by Rosen who clearly understands that he would be further compromising the LSE.  How the university management even could appoint this man in the first place is anyone’s guess.  He clearly acknowledges that he deserves no such role as his resignation insists and now we need to see a full transparent investigation into this ridiculous occurrence.”

Contact: Raheem Kassam, Director, Student Rights – Raheem.Kassam@studentrights.org.uk

Notes for Editors: Student Rights is a two year old anti-extremism pressure group focusing on university campuses.  The organisation played an integral role in exposing the LSE-Gaddafi money and continues to monitor hate-speech, intolerance, and bias on campuses.

ORIGINAL STORY:

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS’ GADDAFI FUNDED CENTRE APPOINTS ‘DISGRACED’ JOURNALIST WITH HEZBOLLAH FACEBOOK LINK

It has emerged that London School of Economics has appointed Nir Rosen as a research fellow at the Gaddafi funded Global Governance Centre.  Rosen recently quit the New York University 'in disgrace' following offensive tweets regarding CBS and CNN correspondents who were physically and sexually abused in Egypt during the recent uprising.

Reportedly to be paid up to £50,000 from the LSE, Rosen has also been criticised for his Facebook account which allegedly hosted a picture of his son wearing a Hezbollah (terrorist organisation) t-shirt.   Raheem Kassam, Director of Student Rights has said, "If what Mr. Rosen is alleged to have said is true, then this is a sickening twist in an already lurid saga of extremists and hateful people using the LSE as the Gaddafi's recent did."

This weekend, Mr Rosen used his Twitter account to announce: "I am now a Fellow at the London School of Economics Center for the Study of Global Governance.

So now I write Center "centre". Cheerio!"  These reports will be especially damaging for the LSE given their recent admission of guilt over the Gaddafi bloody money, stories of their Middle East Centre bias and the previous incident regarding an alleged member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir teaching on campus.

Kassam went on to comment, "If indeed Mr. Rosen is a Hezbollah sympathiser as some reports suggest, then the management of the LSE must immediately halt operations of the Global Governance Centre and launch a full transparent investigation."
Update from the Evening Standard
Contact: Raheem Kassam, Director, Student Rights – Raheem.Kassam@studentrights.org.uk