: academic, writer and anti-semitezionist, Tom Paulin:
Paulin, who appears regularly on the panel of the BBC2 arts programme Newsnight Review (formerly Late Review), allegedly made the comment in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.
The interviewer wrote that Paulin, a consistent critic of Israeli conduct towards the Palestinians, clearly abhorred “Brooklyn-born” Jewish settlers. Paulin, a lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, was then quoted as saying: “They should be shot dead.”“I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them.” Earlier in the interview, he was quoted as saying: “I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.”
On the subject of suicide bombers, the paper quoted him as saying: “I can understand how suicide bombers feel. It is an expression of deep injustice and tragedy.”
“I think, though, that it is better to resort to conventional guerrilla warfare. I think that attacks on civilians in fact boost morale. Hitler bombed London into submission, but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.”
And here was me thinking it’s a long time since we’ve seen that dreadful old bore on Newsnight Review, maybe they’ve done the decent thing and quietly dropped him. Alas not.
More on Paulin in Wikipedia and of course Google.
Update: Oh dear. He’s just blabbed out a crucial plot development while discussing Awake and Sing.