As the elected representative of Jewish students in Glasgow, home to Scotland's largest Jewish community, I have witnessed firsthand the alarming rise of antisemitism on university campuses.

Antisemitism in the UK is at some of the highest recorded levels, and Scottish universities have not been immune.

Polling by the Community Security Trust (CST) suggests that antisemitism at British universities has risen by 117% over the past two years, continuing an already worrying trend.

Jewish students are not only fearful, but worse, we feel that our fears are being ignored, dismissed, or outright denied.

These feelings were most acutely felt following the election of the now Glasgow University Rector, who built his whole campaign around removing the IHRA definition, the most widely accepted definition of antisemitism, a definition endorsed by the overwhelming majority of representatives of Jewish communities around the world.

As if that wasn't enough, this Rector is most well-known for having given the eulogy at the funeral of Maher Al-Yamani, the co-founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is a proscribed terrorist group in the UK.

The PFLP is notorious for having carried out numerous plane hijackings and was formally added to the UK terror list in 2014.

In the eulogy, amid quoting Bobby Sands, the now Rector referred to Al-Yamani as a close friend.

When this individual received........

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