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Wes Streeting: Our friend at the NUS

October 22, 2009 16:21
Wes Streeting

ByMarcus Dysch, Marcus Dysch

2 min read

Few non-Jewish presidents of the National Union of Students can have found themselves the victim of an antisemitic attack.

But Wes Streeting’s experience of being verbally abused while reading Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel on the London Underground provided him with an insight into the impact of antisemitism and anti-Israel action.

Since being elected in April 2008, Mr Streeting has worked hard to support the Union of Jewish Students, promoting a zero tolerance stance to antisemitism and academic boycotts.

He said the efforts have been successful, with the once “strained” relationship now “a million miles away”.