The National Union of Students (NUS) has been condemned by a communal leader for its “failure to afford Jewish students the respect any other minority would receive”.
Ella Rose, the president of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), which represents 8,500 students in the UK, said she was “disgusted” by the student body’s national executive committee in a letter sent ahead of a meeting today.
She called on the NUS to reconsider its boycott of companies that support Israel (BDS). Ms Rose, 21, also condemned the NUS after it suggested that allegations of antisemitism were exaggerated in the wake of Operation Protective Edge.
In an open letter, she wrote: “Quite frankly I am disgusted.
