University administrators often cite high academic achievement and active Jewish societies as evidence that Jewish students are thriving. On the surface, this may look positive. But in reality, this praise often hides something much more uncomfortable: Jewish students have become so self-sufficient that universities are using our resilience as an excuse for institutional neglect.

What administrators call resilience increasingly feels like forced adaptation to a hostile environment.

Of the 2.86 million higher education students in the UK, only around 9,000 are Jewish, representing just 0.3% of the total student body. We are a tiny minority, yet we are often treated as though we can manage our own safety, advocacy, education, and defence without proper institutional support. By treating Jewish students as a self-contained group who can simply handle it, universities risk masking a culture where hostility has become so normalised that Jewish students are expected to adapt to exclusion rather than see it challenged.

This normalisation is made painfully clear in the Union of Jewish Students’ landmark Time for Change report, which found that one in five UK students would actively refuse to house-share with a Jewish peer, while nearly half had witnessed the open glorification of proscribed terror groups on campus. These are not minor warning signs. They show that Jewish students are navigating a campus culture where antisemitism is not always treated........

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