Debating dignity

I’ve as much right as anyone to take offence at the Cambridge Union “Hitlergate” episode, described by Keir Bradwell on Prospect’s website (16th November). I’m an 81-year-old Jew, born in 1939 of an Austrian Jewish mother and an Italian Jewish father. They each came to London as refugees in 1938, where they met and married.

As they later explained to me, I lost many, many relatives to concentration camps. I might have been shocked had I been at the debate. I have no quarrel with Bradwell’s reported handling of the matter as president. But I do find John Cleese’s virtue-signalling reaction to the events small-minded and, as such, in bad taste.

Jonathan Burn-Forti, via email