Rabbi condemns election of Israeli whistleblower as new Glasgow university rector

The leader of a Jewish students' group at Glasgow University in Scotland has attacked the election of Mordechai Vanunu, famous for revealing details of the Israeli nuclear program, as the university's new rector. Rabbi David Cohen, the Jewish student chaplain, said the 50-year-old former technician had set a bad example to young people. His comments came after Vanunu, who is forbidden to leave Israel, announced that he intends to travel to Glasgow to take up the position as the 119th rector "at the first opportunity". Vanunu spent 18 years in prison for leaking details of Israel's secret atomic weapons program to the media in the 1980s. He was elected the university's figurehead last week by students in a show of "support for basic human rights". Rabbi Cohen called Vanunu, a Jewish convert to Christianity, as a traitor and someone unsuitable to represent Glasgow's students.