Israeli historian Benny Morris has written an account of last week’s visit to the London School of Economics where he addressed a meeting on the subject of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

The visit understandably provoked some controversy, given Morris’s support for ethnic cleansing and his bigoted comments about Muslims, and he complains that he was harangued by demonstrators on his way to the lecture theatre. (“Several spoke in broken, obviously newly acquired, English.”)

And what conclusion does Morris draw from this experience of political opponents exercising their legitimate right to protest against him? He writes: “Uncurbed, Muslim intimidation in the public domain of people they see as disagreeing with them is palpable and palpably affecting the British Christian majority among whom they live, indeed, cowing them into silence. One senses real fear….”

Of course, such comments are hardly unexpected, coming from a man who is on record as stating that “the phenomenon of the mass Muslim penetration into the West and their settlement there is creating a dangerous internal threat”.

However, imagine the outrage that would result if a Palestinian speaker at the LSE had been harangued by Zionist students and responded by writing: “Uncurbed, Jewish intimidation in the public domain of people they see as disagreeing with them is palpable and palpably affecting the British Christian majority among whom they live, indeed, cowing them into silence. One senses real fear….”

One thing is certain, that individual would never again be invited to speak at the LSE.