Students have deferred a debate on a motion at this year’s National Union of Students’ conference, which called on the union to boycott Israel.
A UJS spokesperson said the motion - which included a boycott call as part of its broader aim to defends the rights of Palestinians to education – was postponed “after the majority of conference agreed there were more pressing and relevant concerns for UK students to discuss” .
It will now be put on the agenda for the NUS' next national executive council meeting later this year.
This week, a large group of Jewish students joined more than 1,000 delegates in Liverpool for the three-day conference, which seeks to set the agenda for student politics over the forthcoming year.
