Omer Bartov, a former IDF soldier and genocide historian, faced protests during a lecture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Be’er Sheva, Israel. His lecture was part of an event about worldwide campus protests against Israel. He planned to address the war in Gaza and whether the protests were sincere expressions of outrage or motivated by antisemitism, as some had claimed. However, it was blocked by activists from extreme rightwing organisations. Despite this, their sentiments reflected a broader viewpoint within the country. For guardian