Mick Hartley

It's not as bad here as it is on US campuses, but it's still bad. In the Times – Jewish students at UCL say they are facing rising antisemitism:

When [Romilly] Blitz posted on social media in the hours after the attack about rapes perpetrated by Hamas, a classmate said that she was “clearly racist and Islamophobic” given her lack of focus on Palestinian victims.

As pro-Palestinian protests began on campus, a tearful Blitz decided to leave. Waiting to be picked up by her mother, her sense of anger erupted when a demonstrator walked past with a sign reading “Free Palestine — this is justice”.

Blitz, a history and politics student, returned to campus two weeks later from her family home only to soon find herself at the centre of what her mother described as a “whispering campaign”.

The student, who is not an Israeli national, sought to challenge some of the opinions that were proliferating about events in the Middle East, putting forward her perspective as a Jew. In response, she was referred to as a “psychopathic genocidal Israeli” who had been “brainwashed by Zionist propaganda”.

She said: “Things just really got spun so when I would go to classes people would boo me, people would not move, I’d have to sit on the floor at the back if there were no seats because people were so rude.”

Yep… antisemitism.