From the Times:
Antisemitism in the UK is “off the rails”, according to the director of a new film about an explosion of violence on American university campuses.
Wendy Sachs’s documentary October 8 was released on Friday in the US and she hopes to bring the film to British audiences this year.
The film comes as President Trump’s administration this week cancelled $400 million in funds to Columbia University in New York, claiming that it failed to protect Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus.
Sachs, who is also the film’s executive producer, said there were “a lot of parallels” with the UK.
“As someone who is very much entrenched in Democratic politics and progressive causes, I can tell you what’s happening on the left here in America really mirrors what’s been happening on the left in the UK for more than a decade,” she said.
Well yes, it's bad here – but Americans, especially on the left, do love to point out how bad things are here in the UK by comparison with their own "City on a Hill". See the NYT. I'd suggest that we have nothing here on the scale of Columbia University, say, to pick the obvious example. The familiar Zionist-Nazi slurs combine with all the settler colonialism stuff they get taught there to produce a particularly toxic mix of anti-Zionist/antisemitic activism.
University societies are glorifying Hamas and sharing antisemitic messages, with campus tensions escalating so severely that Jewish sixth-formers are attending workshops to prepare them for being targeted for abuse.
The higher education regulator has warned universities that free speech does not include harassment of Jewish students nor support for terrorists. Its intervention came after student activists shared material sympathetic to Hamas.
Analysis by The Times found student groups praising terrorist “martyrs”, including the architect of the October 7 atrocity in which more than 1,200 people were killed, and liking images on social media of Hamas fighters.
Mick Hartley 
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