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In Morocco, a university cancelled a lecture by an Israeli computer scientist after students flagged his support for Israel’s genocide on Gaza. However, he later spoke at a separate event in Marrakech. On 7 October—which marks one year of Israel’s war on Gaza—Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Bengrir, near Marrakech, announced a lecture by Michael Bronstein, an Israeli computer scientist and AI professor at Oxford University. The university, which maintains partnerships with several Israeli institutions despite growing protests, made the lecture mandatory for students. However, the …

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