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Kees van der Pijl, a retired International Relations proffessor from the University of Sussex, U.K, tweeted:
Not Saudis, Israelis blew up Twin Towers with help from Zionists in US govthttps://t.co/NUTRhsSrhu https://t.co/Km26Db3zmm
— Kees van der Pijl (@KeesvdPijl1) November 3, 2018
The professor linked to an article from Wikispooks, a website that has been firmly debunked as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory website. He is now being taken to task by the Sussex Jewish Representative Council (SJRC):
We are concerned by the conspiracy theories that have been tweeted by @SussexUni Emeritas Professor @KeesvdPijl1. We ask that @SussexUni investigate immediately & consider removing his ‘emeritas’ status. This type of hatemongering has no place in society, least of all in academia pic.twitter.com/W8dko0qzLm
— Sussex Jewish Rep Council (@SussexJewishRep) November 6, 2018
Rather than backpedaling his comments in response to the backlash from the Sussex Jewish Representative Council, Kees van der Pijl replied on twitter:
After my remark on Zionist responsibility for 9/11, the ‘Israel lobby’ is no longer an empty term for me. Yet we have to put an end to the murderous ‘War on Terror’ ((c) Netanyahu 1986) that now has Iran in its sightshttps://t.co/t4IbpIde8o
— Kees van der Pijl (@KeesvdPijl1) November 6, 2018
He also commented on the Daily Mail’s coverage of his initial inflammatory tweet:
Here’s quality journalism for you. ‘Israel’–I wrote ‘Israelis’. ‘Mocking replies’–a wave of one-liner abuse, true. But far more numerous detailed and informative responses. ‘Facebook post’. I am not on Facebook. https://t.co/VqRx4foN1v
— Kees van der Pijl (@KeesvdPijl1) November 6, 2018