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A bill in the Israeli parliament is part of an attempt to clamp down on those opposing the country’s Gaza war narrative, a lawyer at a human rights group said on Thursday. The bill in the Knesset would mean higher education institutions would have to sack teaching staff expressing “support for terror”. It would empower the Council for Higher Education in Israel to instruct a university or college to dismiss a teacher for political comments, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. “This bill is, of course, a small part of a wider effort to exploit the atmosphere of war in order to repress anyone wh…

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