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Also a great paper from Eddy Campbell on the influence of piobaireachd on Boulez, which was explicit, especially relating to the idea of subsuming a line in grace notes.
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
During Boulez’s tenure at the New York Philharmonic, one disgruntled letter and Boulez’s response. From a great paper in Edinburgh by Gabryel Smith.
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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At the impressive Institut Français d’Ecosse for #Boulez symposium, introduced by Eddie Campbell. Great to participate in panel on Pli selon pli with Larson Powell, @ianpace.bsky.social & Michael Spitzer
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This week's appalling attacks on Professors Alice Sullivan
and Michael Ben-Gad are the tip of the iceberg.

They emerge from a culture of impunity on the progressive left - which believes itself above the law, and has too often been permitted to act accordingly.

www.edrith.co.uk/p/the-progre...
October 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Universities have obligation to ensure staff can express their views freely

Universities have obligation to protect safety of staff

What is happening is bullying & harassment of Prof Ben-Gad

This is true whether or not one agrees with his views

www.standard.co.uk/news/educati...
Masked thugs 'threaten to behead Israeli professor' at City University
Michael Ben-Gad, a lecturer at City St George’s, has faced calls to resign because he served in the IDF
www.standard.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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The Royal Economic Society is deeply concerned by reports that an academic economist has been publicly harassed at a London university because they are Israeli.

Read our full statement here: bit.ly/4oAEUaf
October 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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I was pleased to speak to Times Radio on the antisemitic campaign against Professor Michael Ben-Gad, listen from 1.25.

@sriucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...
Times Radio Breakfast with Kate McCann and Calum Macdonald | Times Radio | The Times and the Sunday Times
Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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The situation has escalated since the letter was written, with activists disrupting Michael's lecture earlier this week and making murderous threats.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli professor says activists 'threatened to chop off his head'
Michael Ben-Gad, an economics lecturer at City University in London , has been branded a 'terrorist' and has faced calls to be sacked because he served in the Israel Defence Forces from 1982 to 1985.
www.dailymail.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Today is the last day for signing: we will close it at 17:00 UK time. Please do sign if you haven’t already done so.
Academics: please consider signing the open letter to support Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City University.

Students are demanding his sacking simply because he is an Israeli Jew who did mandatory military service in the 1980s.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Standing against targeted harassment of Professor Michael Ben-Gad
21 October 2025 We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by a targeted harassment campaign against Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City St George’s, University of London, led by a group ca...
docs.google.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The Head of the Department of Economics, Professor Emmanouil Mentzakis, has issued a statement condemning the recent harassment directed at Professor Michael Ben-Gad and reaffirming the values of mutual respect, open debate, and academic freedom.

Full statement: www.linkedin.com/posts/emmano...
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Das MullahPropagandamedium PressTV auf X beim anmoderieren der IntifadaHassAktion. Keine Lust das live hier zu verbreiten. Geht auf den Link oder sucht es woanders.

Zu PressTV
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_TV
/4

x.com/PressTV/stat...
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Der Text des SoliBriefes legt nahe, dass die Kampagne schon länger dauert.

Ein iranisch staatsunterstützendes Medium überträgt die Aktion. Iran hat ähnlich wie Russland ein großes Interesse Demokratien zu destabilisieren, auch durch MitOrchestrierung dieser Kampagnen/3

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Professor Michael Ben-Gad at City St George’s, University of London, has been subject to a vicious harassment campaign because he, an Israeli citizen, studied, taught and worked in Israel, and served in the IDF (as all Jewish Israelis must). Please read and sign this.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Standing against targeted harassment of Professor Michael Ben-Gad
21 October 2025 We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by a targeted harassment campaign against Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City St George’s, University of London, led by a group ca...
docs.google.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Maskierte störten Unterricht des EconomieProfessor Michael BenGad und brüllten ihm - Das Übliche- entgegen.
BenGad, Israeli hat seinen Wehrdienst vor Jahrzehnten abgeleistet.

btw Video wird von PressTV einem StaatsOutlet des Irans verbreitet (Grund ist klar)

z Glück umfangreiche Soli s.u. /1
October 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Please share this letter in support of the City University professor of economics Michael Ben-Gad, who is receiving death threats and harassment, as part of an ongoing campaign to have him sacked owing to his having completed compulsory IDF service 1982-1985.
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Open letter in support of Prof Michael Ben-Gad, City University London, targeted and harassed by “students” in a protest group, for no other reason than pure anti-semitism - for being an Israeli Jew. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Standing against targeted harassment of Professor Michael Ben-Gad
21 October 2025 We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by a targeted harassment campaign against Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City St George’s, University of London, led by a group ca...
docs.google.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Professor Michael Ben-Gad at City St George’s, University of London, has been subject to a vicious harassment campaign because he, an Israeli citizen, studied, taught and worked in Israel, and served in the IDF (as all Jewish Israelis must). Please read and sign this.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Standing against targeted harassment of Professor Michael Ben-Gad
21 October 2025 We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by a targeted harassment campaign against Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City St George’s, University of London, led by a group ca...
docs.google.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Alice Sullivan, a leading gender-critical researcher, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Maddox Prize for her landmark review into how sex is recorded in publicly funded research. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky
https://ow.ly/7vkp50X4ztK
Sullivan Review author shortlisted for Maddox Prize
UCL professor Alice Sullivan who led review into how biological sex is captured in data collection is vying for Nature-led award
ow.ly
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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One week until my talk on #Satie at Berwick Literary Festival! 6 October, 7.30 pm in the Straw Yard, booking link here: www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/whats-on/blf...
BLF ’25: Erik Satie: 100 years since his death – The Maltings
www.maltingsberwick.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
More than other Britpop bands, Oasis still resemble what they did in the 90s. Their appeal today represents a nostalgia for more optimistic times than the uncertainty and economic decline of today, when the flag could be celebrated. I am quoted in here.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
How Oasis brought this divided nation a rare moment of unity
As the Gallagher brothers prepare to conclude their history-making, feud-repairing UK reunion tour with two more nights at Wembley Stadium, Mark Beaumont speaks to Irvine Welsh, Suede and other expert...
www.independent.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Today, Métier presents a “monumental” (The Wire) 4-disc box set from pianist Ian Pace in commanding performances of music by composer Michael Finnissy (b. 1946). On all platforms today at https://listn.fm/finnissypiano
September 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
‘Some close reading persisted, but many critics favoured contextual explanations or speculative hermeneutics aligned with ideological agendas, often in a censorious key reminiscent of Zhdanov, the true father of cancel culture.’ More on anti-formalism.

cafeamericainmag.com/the-persecut...
The Persecution of the Soviet “Formalists”, Pt. 2
What the Cancelling of Certain Artforms in Stalin’s USSR Tells Us About Censorship Today
cafeamericainmag.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM