My friend John Rose, who has died aged 79 from renal failure, was a lifelong socialist. He was also a committed anti–Zionist from a Jewish background and passionately supported the Palestinian cause.
As an undergraduate at the London School of Economics in the 1960s, John was one of the leading figures in the 1968 student revolt. Protests had begun in 1966 when Walter Adams, the former principal of the College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (now the University of Zimbabwe), accused of failing to oppose UDI in Rhodesia, was appointed director of LSE. John was disciplined for his actions, but was undeterred.
