Found 11 results for "antisemitic rhetoric"
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on January 23, 2018 at 5:00 pm
UK Government pledges to fund student trips to Auschwitz to combat anti-Semitism
In the lead up to Holocaust Memorial Day 2018, the UK government has announced that it will partner with the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and the Holocaust Education Trust (HET) in sending 200 university students from across the UK to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi extermination camp in Poland. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department for Education have pledged to devote £144,000 to the project. They aim to train participants so that they can educate fellow students about anti-Semitism when they return to UK campuses. Student Rights is extremely supportive of the government’s decision to support students in this way. We hope it has a tangible impact at all levels of student life across the UK.
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on October 27, 2017 at 2:27 pm
UCL due to host Hamas apologist Azzam Tamimi
On 10 November 2017, the UCL Friends of Palestine will host an event with Dr. Azzam Tamimi, a Palestinian academic, in conjunction with student Palestine societies at Westminster, Queen Mary, KCL, City University, and Imperial College. Tamimi will speak alongside anti-Israel activist Miko Peled. Given Tamimi’s public support for Hamas, his use of anti-Semitic tropes, and his endorsement of violent extremism, it is highly disturbing that he is being given an unbalanced platform to spread his views on campus. As it stands, the event does not provide a satisfactory forum for challenging extremism or safeguarding the welfare of students. University authorities should intervene so that the event can take place with an independent moderator, a balanced panel, and university and/ or student union staff present. The event should be postponed if these conditions cannot be met.
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on August 10, 2017 at 4:01 pm
UK Government distances itself from the British University in Egypt over antisemitism scandal
In March 2017, Mohamed Farid Fouad Khamis, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the British University in Egypt (BUE), gave a speech at a conference which promoted the antisemitic conspiracy ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’. A video of the talk was translated by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), who subsequently contacted the UK Government and Loughborough University. They pressured them to sever relations with the institution. The matter has now been investigated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Both the Government and Loughborough University have said that their contracts with the BUE will end in December 2017. Student Rights welcomes this principled stance and commends CAA for pursuing this case. We will continue to hold to account British universities that partner, affiliate, accept money from or set up satellite campuses with foreign institutions which have a history of extremism or intolerance.
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on July 24, 2017 at 4:58 pm
Prevent plays a decisive role in challenging Far-Right extremism
Home Office and Police figures have shown that the number of Far-Right referrals to Prevent’s Channel programme have risen significantly in recent times. This news has not received nearly as much publicity as inaccurate perceptions that the policy unfairly targets the wider Muslim community. Like its Islamist equivalent, Far-Right extremism provides its followers with a seemingly cohesive sense of meaning, purpose and identity. Recruiters prey on vulnerable individuals looking for an ideology or cause that can offer them absolute certainty in times of personal crisis. The Far-Right is especially dangerous for students from minority backgrounds. Prevent, on the other hand, is one of the most effective forms of defence we have against this pernicious form of extremism.
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Student Rights
on March 17, 2017 at 8:36 am
Yet more racist graffiti on UK campuses
There have been further examples of fascist and racist graffiti on UK university campuses this week, as a student bar in Birmingham saw graffiti targeting ethnic and sexual minorities...
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Student Rights
on February 27, 2017 at 10:49 am
'Israeli Apartheid Week' events face cancellations
The recent cancellation of a number of 'Israeli Apartheid Week’ events at campuses across the UK appears to presage a significant change in the way institutions deal with the issue...
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Student Rights
on February 20, 2017 at 10:28 am
NUS faces further challenge over anti-Semitism
Over the weekend, the Guardian examined how UK universities have been “urged to tackle [a] rising tide of antisemitism on campus”, documenting the spate of anti-Semitic graffiti previously reported by Student Rights...
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Student Rights
on February 7, 2017 at 1:57 pm
Swastikas on-campus at Cambridge (Update: Swastikas found at other universities)
Student Rights has learnt from a number of students at the University of Cambridge that a spate of anti-Semitic incidents have been reported at the prestigious university...
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Student Rights
on February 7, 2017 at 1:05 pm
International Business Times: Jewish students feel suffocated on British campuses - divisive pro-Palestinian rhetoric is to blame
Friends of al-Aqsa and others have hijacked Palestinian solidarity societies at UK universities...
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Student Rights
on January 23, 2017 at 7:11 am
Friends of al-Aqsa and campus activism
Since the start of the 2016-17 academic year, Student Rights has seen a concerted attempt by Friends of Al Aqsa (FOA) to target students across the UK...
