Last week I wrote of a shocking “debate” at Oxford University’s world famous Oxford Union society (Does Oxford think it ok to honor a man who calls Anne Frank a “Holo-porn” star? )

Several people have asked me about the outcome of this “debate.” Oxford students voted by a narrow margin that Israel does have a right to exist. (Of course, a prestigious Israeli institution, such as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, could now hold a debate on whether Oxford has a right to exist. But they appear to have better manners than some of the students and academics at Oxford and have no plans to do so.)

The criticism of the Oxford debate stemmed as much from the Oxford Union’s choice of speakers as to the subject of the debate. The speakers who the Oxford Union chose to speak on behalf of Israel were almost as vicious about the Jewish state as those who argued Israel should be destroyed.

During the debate, Ted Honderich, professor of philosophy at University College London, who was meant to be defending Israel, said Palestinian terrorists had a “moral right” to murder Israeli civilians.

And his co-speaker “defending Israel’s right to exist,” Norman Finkelstein, actually voted against himself. Finkelstein was speaking for the motion “This House Believes That The State of Israel has a Right to Exist,” and yet at the end he crossed sides and voted against Israel’s right to exist, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Past presidents of the Oxford Union have gone on to become prime ministers of the United Kingdom and of other countries such as Pakistan.