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CST UNCOVERS WIDESPREAD ANTISEMITISM AT BRITISH UNIVERSITIES

BY DAVID SAFFER A Community Security Trust investigation has found 123 anti-Semitic incidents affecting Jewish students, academics and student bodies across the UK during the past two academic years. Incidents in 34 different towns in the report ‘Campus Antisemitism in Britain 2018-2020’ included anti-Semitic incidents by students, academic staff, students’ union officials and student society officers. The response of some universities to complaints was found by CST to be inconsistent and in worst cases increased the harm

felt by Jewish students. CST recorded 65 university incidents in the 2019/2020 academic year and 58 the year before. Previously, CST recorded incidents by calendar year, logging 25 incidents in 2018, 22 in 2017 and 41 in 2016. The increase in totals since 2018 reflects a sustained drive by CST’s campus team to encourage students to report anti-Semitic incidents. Mark Gardner, CST chief executive, said, “University should be an excellent experience for young people, but CST’s detailed study shows that anti-Semitism is a real problem for some Jewish students, mostly involving racism

and ignorance from other young people, either verbally or via social media. The most serious cases occur where universities deny their students adequate protection, either from visiting hate speakers, or from their own politically-biased academics pushing conspiracy theories, including about British Jews, anti-Semitism and the Labour Party.” Lord Mann, HM Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism noted that all students should have a right to be who they want to be on campus. “CST’s report evidences a clear CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Mark Gardner CST CEO

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