Colchester – A lecturer at the University of Essex accused of sharing a Shoah revisionism post has been sacked, following an investigation and a tribunal hearing.

Dr Maaruf Ali, computer and electronics lecturer, drew media coverage earlier this year when he opposed the creation of a Jewish student society.

He wrote on a student Facebook page that “the Zionists next want to create a society here at our university.”

The post was among several antisemitic messages discovered, prompting the university to suspend Dr Ali and launch an investigation into his social media. Among the posts, one read: “In all of German-occupied Europe, there resided 2,4 million Jews before the war, according to the World Jewish Encyclopedia. “After the war, 3.8 million Jewish “Holocaust survivors” were receiving pensions from the German government. “Tragically, the remaining six million were lost.”