LISTEN: Malia Bouattia Fails to Defend Safe Spaces in Car-Crash Interview



The embattled president of the National Union of Students has offered an embarrassingly incoherent defence of her support for safe space policies at British universities.

Malia Bouattia, the controversial leader of the left-wing group, was challenged in a car-crash interview that aired this morning on the BBC Today Programme.

Listen here:

Host Mishal Husain puts it to Bouattia that the policies are “curbing freedom of speech on campus” and the “antithesis” of a properly functioning university.

Attempting to summarise the word-mess which ensues is a fool’s errand, but suffice it to say that even Bouattia seems pretty unconvinced her response, amidst a sea of “um”s, “erm”s tries to claim safe spaces and no-platforming are “democratic processes” demanded by the “grassroots” and that “freedom of speech” is actually a myth.

Her day got even worse after that exchange, when Hussian confronted Bouattia with her famous characterisation of the University of Birmingham as a “Zionist outpost”.

In her reply, which is below and also worth listening to, Bouattia refused to say she “regrets” the slur – which Jewish students across the UK repeatedly cite as proof of her anti-Semitism.

These concerns she elegantly dismisses by saying: “It was not, you know, er, er, was not saying the things that it’s been interpreted as – if you will.”

Bouattia, usually extremely keen to highlight her media appearances on Twitter, oddly made no mention of the unflattering Today segment, which you can hear below in full:

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If this is her response to even vaugely hostile questioning, it’s little surprise she champions policies forcing her critics to shut up…

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