Mick Hartley

No great surprise here:

Jewish students have faced vile abuse on campus amid an 'unacceptable' rise in anti-Semitism at UK universities.

The findings come amid an ongoing investigation into the National Union of Students (NUS) over anti-Semitism allegations.

Robert Halfon, Commons education committee chairman, said: 'Universities and unions trumpet their so-called ''inclusion and diversity agenda'' but when it comes to anti-Semitism, it seems that those of the Jewish faith don't count.' 

A record 111 incidents of anti-Semitic abuse at universities were reported in 2020-21 to the charity Community Security Trust (CST).

Last year it recorded three incidents of swastikas or anti-Semitic messages graffitied on campus.

Earlier this year at Manchester students reportedly told someone at a Jewish Society stall which displayed an Israeli flag that she was 'worse than Hitler'.

An NUS spokesman said it could not comment due to the KC-led probe but added: 'We will take appropriate action in due course.'

Of course they will.

More NUS news, from a few months back:

The newly elected President of the National Union of Students has sung the praises of a Jew-hating cleric and raised money for a Muslim advocacy group widely accused of having sympathised with terrorists. 

Shaima Dallali has also labelled a cleric critical of Hamas a “dirty Zionist” and posted a video of anti-Israel protesters calling for an intifada.

The Union of Jewish Students has called for an urgent meeting with Ms Dallali while Labour Against Antisemitism warned that “anti-Jewish racism in the NUS is spiralling out of control”, adding that public funding should be cut unless there was profound change.  

She will take over from outgoing president Larissa Kennedy, who is herself facing calls to quit her two year term early over her suggestion Jewish students could segregate themselves to avoid watching anti-Zionist performer Lowkey at an NUS concert….

On Twitter Ms Dallali has called Jordanian preacher Dr Waseem Yousef a “dirty Zionist” after he wrote that Hamas was launching rockets from between residents’ homes and was making “a graveyard” for children in Gaza. 

And in a 2018 article she sung the praises of Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi - who was expelled from Britain, the US, France and Germany – calling him  the “moral compass for the Muslim community at large”. In a sermon on January 9, 2009, Qaradawi lashed out at Jews, including calling on God to "kill them, down to the very last one."

Between 2018 and 2019, Ms Dallali was a project manager for pro-Palestinian advocacy group Europal.   

In 2017, Europal was reported to be organising a trip to the Commons for preacher Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, who dismissed the Holocaust as a “fairytale exploited by Israel to capture international solidarity”.