At the university where I teach in London, the local branch of the lecturers’ union has just passed a motion calling for “intifada until victory!” The university’s Jewish studies department notifies students of lecture venues by text, for fear of disruption. Students at Jewish Society lunches are protected by security guards. Jewish students stay on campus for only as long as they need to, and then leave. The general sentiment is, better to conceal all signs of their Jewishness.
Since the October 7 massacres in southern Israel, there have been 988 antisemitic incidents in the UK. There were 47 assaults, 66 cases of damage and desecration to Jewish property, 106 cases of direct threats to Jews, 767 cases of abusive behaviour and two instances of
