Pro-Hizbollah journalist Nir Rosen has resigned from a controversial fellowship at LSE, just days after announcing his appointment.
Mr Rosen, a staunch anti-Zionist, announced on Friday that he had been appointed a Fellow at LSE’s Centre for Global Governance.
He was widely criticised in February for comments he made about the sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan.
But today an LSE spokesman said: “Nir Rosen today resigned his temporary visiting fellowship at LSE – which was an unpaid position. LSE had already made clear it condemned the offensive comments he made about Lara Logan and others.”
And indeed:
UPDATE
Ophelia Benson notes that “Nick Cohen phoned the LSE press office. He reported their conversation on Facebook”:
“Does he have any academic credentials?”
“No but his war reporting experience is condsidered useful.”
“You mean his experience of justifying the rape of women correspondents?”
“I am not going to answer that.” Hangs up.
Well done Nick!
UPDATE 2
The Daily Mail is all over this story. Mary Kaldor is, apparently, a friend of Nir Rosen’s. Figures.
