Conservative peer Baroness Jacqueline Foster issued a public apology Wednesday and paid substantial damages to Melika Gorgianeh, a doctoral student at Oxford University, after false claims that an octopus soft toy used as the University Challenge team’s mascot was chosen as an antisemitic symbol. In a recent post on X, Foster wrote: “I wrongly alleged […]

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