A UNIVERSITY lecturer has been sacked over claims he posted anti-Semitic material on Facebook.
Essex University has confirmed an investigation into allegations relating to a member of staff has resulted in them being fired following a tribunal hearing.
It is believed the member of staff is computer science lecturer Dr Maaruf Ali who allegedly posted “the Zionists next want to create a society here at our university”.
It came as a bid to create a Jewish society on campus was initially blocked when 200 students voted against it.
However the voting was then deemed void, a re-run was cancelled and the society then automatically ratified.
Posts also appeared to have been shared from the account which appeared to deny the Holocaust.
They have since been deleted.
A spokesman for Essex University said: “The university has now completed an independent investigation into the serious allegations made against a member of university staff.
"Following a tribunal hearing which considered all the evidence the member of staff has been dismissed.”
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