Would you share a house with someone black? Even to pose the question, let alone to say no, is to invite – quite rightly – the accusation of racism. But it’s a different matter when it comes to Jews. The Union of Jewish Students (UJS) has today published a report on campus anti-Semitism in Britiain. Of all the statistics that show the sheer scale of the hate that Jewish students face, the most chilling is that one in five students (20 per cent) say they wouldn’t share a house with a Jew. 

Campus anti-Semitism has been a problem for decades. It was a perennial when I was editor of the Jewish Chronicle, between 2008 and 2021. But it has transformed in recent years from a worrying issue that needed to be dealt with to a critical problem that is out of control. 

As the report shows, glorification of terrorist groups which target Jews is prevalent and goes unpunished. Half of all students (49 per cent) say they have seen Hamas and Hezbollah glorified on campus, and 47 per cent have seen the 7 October attacks justified. One in four students (23 per cent) have witnessed behaviour that targets Jewish students because of their religion.

Today’s students are tomorrow’s cabinet ministers, business leaders, intellectuals

Today’s students are tomorrow’s cabinet ministers, business leaders,........

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