Brodie Mitchell is taking Royal Holloway university to the High Court after being suspended and placed under restrictions following a campus confrontation where he compared a pro-Palestinian student’s keffiyeh to a “tea towel”. At risk? A quarter of a million pounds.
At the heart of the dispute lay a now all-too-familiar tension: between policing impartiality and the apparently insatiable desire of public institutions to virtue signal while taking sides in ideological battles.
Brodie Mitchell is taking Royal Holloway university to the High Court after being suspended and placed under restrictions following a campus confrontation where he compared a pro-Palestinian student’s keffiyeh to a “tea towel”. At risk? A quarter of a million pounds.