Mick Hartley

From the Times – Abuse of Jewish students ‘out of control’ at UK universities:

Rising antisemitism at British universities has led to calls for a public inquiry as research highlights widespread abuse of Jewish students on campuses.

Students describe being verbally abused and facing violent threats across the UK, and university officials are accused of failing to take action.

One student at a leading British university watched a swastika being carved into a desk but after complaining to officials was told it was probably an “ancient Hindu symbol”.

Oh boy.

An “unprecedented volume” of accounts of abuse has been received by StandWithUs UK, an educational charity that supports Israel.

Baroness Deech, the first independent adjudicator for higher education and a former principal at St Anne’s College, Oxford, said the report “offers a chilling insight into the high levels of discrimination and even acts of violence that Jewish and pro-Israel students are subjected to daily across UK campuses”.

She added: “Universities appear to be systematically failing these students, despite these same institutions rightly taking a zero-tolerance approach to all other forms of racism and discrimination.”

Well yes. Jews don't count.

A student of history and politics of the Americas at University College London reported “relentless antisemitic abuse and harassment on campus”. They said: “It’s reached the point where I’ve felt unable to attend class. I’ve reported several incidents to the university, providing the names of the students involved, but none of the complaints have been properly addressed.

“I’ve been repeatedly heckled, alienated, and bullied by other students. I’ve been called ‘brainwashed by Zionist propaganda’, a ‘genocide supporter’, a ‘white settler colonialist’, and told that I am ‘racist by virtue of being Jewish or Israeli’.”…

A student at the University of East Anglia reported: “My campus has become a place where antisemitic displays, flags, posters, signs, are common … Student union representatives chant for Palestine to be free ‘from the river to the sea’ and a motion was even passed under that exact title.”

The university said: “As a university, we will not tolerate antisemitism, Islamophobia or any form of racism, hate crime, harassment, or discrimination. Some time ago, in autumn 2023, our campus was defaced with antisemitic graffiti. It was removed as quickly as possible and support was offered to students and staff distressed by it.”

These people…it's like Corbyn: couldn't mention antisemitism without adding "Islamophobia or any form of racism". It's shorthand for: go away, we don't care.

Rinse and repeat.