Although Miller was, according to Jonathan Cook in Mondoweiss, cleared of the allegations,[5] a further investigation was launched as a result of comments he made about both Israel and Jewish student groups.
[6] The investigation found that Miller's comments were not unlawful but, despite this, his employment by the university was terminated in October 2021 because it was deemed he had not met the standards of behaviour expected of staff.
[4] From 2013 to 2016, he was a Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellow with the Research Councils UK (RCUK), where he led a project examining the function of expertise in the area of terrorism.
[24] According to Jake Wallis Simons of The Jewish Chronicle, PII has received funding from MEND and the Cordoba Foundation, both of which have been accused of having Islamist connections.
[22] SpinWatch aligns with Miller's interest in "concentrations of power in society" by examining networks which it says use "spin and deception" to "distort public debate and undermine democracy".
[25][26][27][better source needed] Miller's SpinProfiles, a project associated with Spinwatch, described itself as a collaborative "encyclopedia of people, issues, and groups shaping the public agenda" and has "close to ten thousand profiles of think tanks, lobbying organisations and those associated with them".
[1] In a 2021 article in the New Statesman, Dave Rich Head of Policy at the Community Security Trust, wrote that Spinwatch "echoes certain facets of anti-Semitic conspiracism".
[4] Another of Miller's websites, Neocon Europe,[33][34] hosted material written by Kevin MacDonald, an American evolutionary psychologist who appeared as a witness for David Irving in his unsuccessful libel claim against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt.
[4] Miller said "I don't teach conspiracy theories of any sort" and that it is "simply a matter of fact" that "parts of the Zionist movement are involved in funding Islamophobia."
[44][45][46] That month, Miller said the "targeted harassment" of him and other socialist members confirmed "the degree of influence that Zionist advocates and lobbyists for Israel have over disciplinary processes and Party policy.
"[56] On 28 February, Malia Bouattia, the former President of the UK National Union of Students, supported Miller in an opinion piece for Aljazeera: "The accusations of 'anti-Semitism' levelled at him arise from a lecture he gave on the Zionist movement's involvement in promoting Islamophobia, a well-known fact among scholars who study the Palestinian question.
"[57] According to the Jewish Chronicle, Iranian-backed Press TV wrote that there was a "concerted campaign against Professor Miller" and "intense activity by the Zionist lobby across the length and breadth of the British political landscape.
"[58] On 4 March 2021, historian David Feldman wrote that Miller's work on Israel and Zionism was in the tradition of "conspiracy theorists [who] have pointed to Jews as the malign force driving the modern world.
This stated that "Professor Miller is an eminent scholar, is known internationally for exposing the role that powerful actors and well-resourced, co-ordinated networks play in manipulating and stage-managing public debates, including on racism.
[10][65] In his immediate response to his termination, Miller said the university "has embarrassed itself and the entire British academic sector by capitulating to a pressure campaign against me overseen and directed by a hostile foreign government."
"[1] On 29 November 2021, Middle East Monitor reported that a leaked second QC's report "commissioned specifically to investigate a public talk that Miller gave in February and an article that he wrote for Ali Abunimah's Electronic Intifada a week later", as one of five elements in the university's wider investigation of the case, concludes that "there is no formal case to answer against Professor Miller" and that he had not "exceeded the boundaries of acceptable speech."
[1] In 2023, Miller commenced employment tribunal proceedings, claiming "unfair dismissal, breach of contract and discrimination or victimisation on grounds of religion or belief.
[12][14][13] A statement from his solicitors said that Miller "successfully claimed discrimination based on his philosophical belief that Zionism is inherently racist, imperialist, and colonial, a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, alongside a finding of unfair dismissal.