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NUS PRESIDENT NAMED ‘RACIST’
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• GOVERNMENT REPORT CALLS MALIA OUT FOR RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM • STUDENTS WANT APOLOGY FOR PRESIDENT’S LANGUAGE BY LAUREN WAUGH Malia Bouattia, current president of the National Union of Students, has been named a ‘racist’ and an ‘antisemite’ by the Home Affairs Select Committee. This follows a summer of disaffiliation campaigns, where Students’ Unions choose to be separate from NUS, running across the country and growing concerns that NUS
is not an inclusive space for Jewish Students. The cross party report from the committee stated “The current president of the National Union of Students, Malia Bouattia, does not appear to take sufficiently seriously the issue of antisemitism on campus, and has responded to Jewish students’ concerns about her previous language with defensiveness and an apparent unwillingness to listen to their concerns.”
Bouattia was elected in April at NUS National Conference by teams of NUS delegates from across the country, prior to Newcastle, Loughborough and Hull disaffiliating. Following the release of the report, a spokesperson for the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) told the Independent “Her inability to fully represent all parts of the student body is disgraceful, and for no part of the student population is this truer than for Jewish students.”
The report follows a string of allegations of anti-semitism made against Bouattia after she referred to Birmingham University as a ‘Zionist outpost.’ MP’s have also drawn attention to her 2014 comments at the “Gaza and the Palestinian Revolution” conference that “mainstream Zionist-led media outlets … resistance is resented as an act of terrorism.” MORE ON PAGE 3...
EXCLUSIVE: PRESIDENT OBAMA ON CAMPUS
BY RITUJA RAO
President of the United States of America, Barack Obama has been greeting students on the Harrow Campus of University of Westminster. A loyal friendly guest, he stood guard on numerous windows of Harrow Halls on many nights, welcoming each visitor with a big smile. President Obama visited many different flats and maintained vigilance all over the campus.
Many students were often spooked by a vague figure on the top floor window of B block as soon as they enter the campus past the reception. Many complained of a vague figure smiling down at the students, ensuring that Halloween came early. Dan Seamarks, VP Harrow too was caught in the chaos, “Innocently walking through campus last night and I think, why is there a man staring at me through the window? Totally freaked me out,” he said.
‘‘TOTALLY FREAKED ME OUT” Nonetheless, the more curious were delighted once they found out that it was none other than America’s most loved and perhaps, last sane President. Many were delighted to meet Obama at his humble abode with his kind hosts in flat 39 in Harrow Halls. MORE ON PAGE 3...