Another week and yet another attempted smear on me by the stained-anorak quislings of Spinwatch - the radical left wing propaganda unit (which hates Israel) operating out of Strathclyde University. A left wing kabal which buries facts and spins lies for no apparent good reason and to zero effect. Another reminder of why Spinwatch's "journalist" drones can't get a job with a decent paper but can just about manage an "ology" at one of the UK's most awful sociology departments run by a Tai Chi-practising, ear-ringed dweeb who brainwashes his weakest students with Chomsky and Pilger until they can bear it no more. With hammers and sickles emblazoned across their glazed eyes they emerge from his tent snorting "comrades I am ripe for stalking a Tory".

This week it's my "CV" on show on one of their tawdry Spinwatch spin-offs including names I've never seen before and an extraordinary fiction of my brief history on this planet as full of holes and malodorous as an off Swiss cheese. There's the usual lies about faking stories for which they have zero evidence but the smear pleases their Islamist allies, who I notice have been having a rather rough trot recently and can expect a very miserable Christmas.

The CV makes out that I've been UK-based for the whole of my professional life when out of fourteen years since university I have spent more than half of them abroad. Droll to see their dodgy funders can't afford them a Kroll - surprised they haven't just put such an expense on Strathclyde University' account without asking (something that has not stopped them before).

This fake Wikipedia of theirs (a summary description that says it all really), "Spinprofiles", is a waste of virtual space. In a world where Wikipedia is not trusted, no-one with any kind of self-respect believes a word that Spinwatch's version vomits - another delusional, virtual haven for the bulimic, dying wreck that is Britain's Far Left.

Dr Howard Fredrics is an American-born composer, performer, audio engineer,and forensic audio specialist, whose compositions have been performed and broadcast internationally.  He has received a number of awards and grants, including Emmy and Telly awards for his music for television, and grants from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Kessler Foundation.  Dr Fredrics has been a professor of music at Brown University, Oberlin Conservatory, Texas A&M University and Kingston University, and currently serves as External Subject Examiner at London Metropolitan University.  He is Company Director of Auracle Music, Ltd, a music and audio production firm located in Southwest London.

Q1: Your departure from Kingston University was clouded indisputes some of which continue until today. You claim "anti Semitism" was involved. Please clarify.

During my tenure in my department, which beganin 2002, there were, at one point, six Jewish staff members.  By the time of my departure in 2006, there were none.  It seems unlikely to me that this is a mere coincidence, that all were sacked, forced to resign, or otherwise did not have their contracts renewed. This process of shedding Jewish staff members seems to correlate with achange of management in my department, which took place around the middle of 2004, when the Head of School was forced out by a collective grievance in which I had refused to join.

In March 2005, in connection with another collective grievance, this time filed against me by a group of eleven of my colleagues, I had filed two counter-grievances in relation to the ultra vires nature of the process employed and detriments meted out for my having made anumber of protected disclosures.  Duringthe course of dealing with these grievances, I had some correspondence with the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Peter Scott, in which I attempted conciliation and whereby I reiterated my desire to restore good working relationships with colleagues.  As part of that correspondence, I suggested that some misunderstandings may have taken place asa result of genuine cultural differences, citing my Jewish and American background.  I was surprised and shocked to receive a sharply worded response in which Prof Scott said, "You seek to excuse your behaviour (on those occasions when you agree it was unprofessional) by reference to your citizenship and religion. The terms in which you seek to justify / explain your unprofessional behaviour amount to further disparagement of your colleagues, i.e. the implications are that they are less direct than you (as an American) and care less deeply than you (as a Jew)."