(Guardian-UK) Harriet Sherwood - The School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) in London refunded Canadian student Noah Lewis 15,000 pounds in fees on Dec. 24 after he was forced to abandon his studies at SOAS in the academic year 2018/19 because of a "toxic anti-Semitic environment." When he stated his intention to write a dissertation on the "systemic biases that exist in the United Nations and target the state of Israel," he said fellow students accused him of being complicit in covering up Israeli war crimes and that he was a "white supremacist Nazi." He felt he had no alternative but to leave the university and demanded his tuition and related fees be refunded. Jonathan Turner, executive director of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), which provided legal assistance to Lewis, said the case "set a benchmark for best practice which should be followed in other cases of an anti-Semitic environment.
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