In an anonymous room of Leeds, Matthias Küntzel, a professor of policy of Hamburg, is assembled Friday on the estrade, free finally to exempt his lesson at the end of a sharp controversy. With five kilometers from there, the university camped on its positions. Two days earlier, its persons in charge had cancelled the conference of the academic, entitled “the heritage hitlérien: Islamic anti-semitism in the Middle East”. For “sedentary” reasons.

Cancellation. Faculty had indeed received several offusqués emails. One of them, signed of a former student, invited the vice-president of the institution “to be excused near all the Moslem community”. Alerted, the Company of the Islamic students of the university claims whereas the title of the conference, judged “causing”, is changed. The faculty of Leeds yields and transforms the heading into “the heritage Nazi: the export of the anti-semitism in the Middle East”. Too much late. The following day, the persons in charge for the university joined together in extraordinary committee issue the cancellation of the seminar.

Catapulted in the battle with his descent of the plane, Matthias Küntzel is deafened. The man, who used the university desks of the whole world, ensures not to make of policy but to exempt a knowledge essential with comprehension of the means-Eastern conflict. “I am not alone to defend the thesis of the Islamic anti-semitism. It is enough to look at the program of Hamas. The Jews are designated there as persons in charge for the First and the Second World Wars. ” But the professor complains especially about the attitude of the university, which “goes against the freedom of expression however expensive to the United Kingdom”.

“Negligence”. The institution defends itself to have yielded to the pressure. According to Vanessa Bridge, Press Office, the university, prevented too late, could not organize safety. “Hundred nationalities cohabit on the campus. To assemble a conference on a significant subject without preparation would be negligence. ” A fallacious argument for Morten Hunke, one of the organizers. It there has some time, tells it, when the university accomodated Tariq Ramadan, discussed figure if it is, “two guards only were held with the door of the seminar”. Would the institution have tried to alleviate a Moslem community diabolized since the terrorist attacks of July 7, 2005 in London? It is what certain murmur.