Tribute to a terrorist... rector's tears for Palestine extremist at memorial trends now

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Glasgow University is under growing pressure to censure its new rector after a video emerged showing him weeping over the death of a Palestinian terror group leader – whose organisation is accused of participating in the October 7 massacre in Israel.

Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British-Palestinian surgeon, was installed in the role after receiving 80 per cent of the student vote.

During a speech delivered to mark his appointment on Thursday, he claimed the institution ‘actively colludes in the murder of innocent civilians’ in Gaza because it has shares in arms companies that supply Israel. He also quoted IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, who said: ‘Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.’

Jewish leaders condemned the 55-year-old’s instalment and said he ‘seeks to make the university a less safe place to be Jewish’.

Now, shocking footage shows the doctor speaking at an anniversary ceremony of the death of Maher Al-Yamani, a co-founder of the proscribed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The Marxist-Leninist organisation, banned in the UK since 2014, has carried out a number of aircraft hijackings, including the capture of an Air France plane in 1976.

Israel has accused it of taking part in the deadly Hamas-led attacks on October 7. The video of Dr Abu-Sittah – obtained by the Jewish Chronicle newspaper – shows him deliver a tearful speech in Beirut in 2020 in remembrance of Al-Yamani, who he praised for his ‘campaign’ in the West Bank and for continuing to scare the enemy – Israel – from the grave.