Mick Hartley

From the Times:

An Oxford University student has resigned as vice-president of her college committee, claiming that “Jewish people are not welcome on campus” after allegations of antisemitism.

Madeline Bryant, 20, quit St Hugh’s College’s JCR, a student committee, and said that the pro-Palestinian protest encampment at the university was part of a “growing tide of antisemitism” on campus….

Bryant, who is Jewish and from New Jersey, had put forward a motion on Saturday night condemning antisemitic incidents that have occurred at the university since the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7.

However, she said that her motion was sidelined to a working group while a motion put forward by Oxford Action for Palestine demanding the university cut ties with Israel was approved for a vote.

On Monday night she sent an email to about 400 of the JCR members announcing her resignation.

The human sciences student wrote: “I have watched my peers at this university chant to ‘Globalise the Intifada’ — a call for violence against Jews — but I was not prepared for it to come to St Hugh’s College.

“It is clear to me that some of the students last night did not come in good faith. I will not serve a JCR that has treated me so cruelly. A JCR that laughed when I spoke. A JCR that refused to engage in productive debate and instead decided to shut down peace and progress.”…

This month Jewish professors and students at the university presented a dossier to the vice-chancellor with more than 70 allegations of antisemitism on campus in eight months.

Bryant told The Times: “Antisemitism has become very bad recently so I put forward a moderate motion calling for peace and a two-state solution.

“But I soon realised they were not interested in dialogue. People have targeted me and attacked me for being a Jew. I’ve received a hate message online. The people behind the camp claim it is a safe space for Jews, but that is not the case.

“There’s a big problem across the entire university. When I saw the protests going on in America I thought British students would be more reasonable, and engage in civil debate, but I was wrong.

“My ancestors fled this continent less than 100 years ago amid violence and my family were scared that I was coming back to Europe to study but I told them I would be OK.

“Sometimes I feel it was a mistake. The one thing I’ve taken from this is that Jews are not welcome on campus.”

Well that's depressing. No doubt we all hoped that "British students would be more reasonable", but no, the American example of progressive antisemitism has proved just too compelling.