Jewish students faced a ‘hostile’ culture within the National Union of Students (NUS) after it failed to sufficiently challenge antisemitism, a ‘shocking’ investigation has found.
According to the report by Rebecca Tuck KC, Jews were on occasion made to feel like ‘pariahs’ and were not properly protected from anti-Semitic abuse from pro-Palestinian activists.
The far left is antisemitic. The sun rises in the east, oranges are orange and ducks quack.
Some thirty-five years ago, in my left-wing student activist days, many of my friends within the movement were Jewish. We discussed anti-semitism as a problem which affected society as a whole but I don’t recall it ever being cited as a problem within the NUS or the student community – at least at my university.
I had, until recently, assumed that the shift towards anti-Semitism within the NUS was entirely due to a rise in pro-Palestine and anti-Israel feeling in left-wing circles in the 1990s. However, recent reading on another subject alerted me to a series of articles and lectures in the USA the early nineties explicitly linking Jews to the Atlantic slave trade.
It would be interesting to know whether, in addition to pro-Palestinian influence, there has been deliberate infiltration by organisations such as BLM.
Of course, the logical conclusion is that the NUS has been infiltrated by Andrew Bridgen. Not sure which rag would print that story though…
Which is strange, given how many leaders of the great Soviet Revolutions were Jewish.
Still it cannot be denied that the modern left (Jezza and ilk) hide their antisemitism behind the thinnest and smallest of fig leaves when they claim that their problem “is not the Jewish people, but the policies and practices of the Israeli government”.
Yeah Jezza. Right…