Antisemitism on campus

Jewish students

‘I understand antisemitism because I was born in Russia’

Nicole Lampert talks to the author of a new guide for students on how to fight Jew-hatred on campus

By Nicole Lampert

5 min read

Back in the USSR: Izabella Tabarovsky and refuseniks with Natan Sharansky on the right

Protesters disrupt Michael Ben-Gad's lecture

By Ian Pace

The targeting of Israeli Professor Michael Ben-Gad: Britain’s academic freedom crisis

4 min read

Pro-Palestinian protest camp at University College London (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

By Baroness Ruth Deech

Universities must rein in scourge of hate they left unchecked for so long

2 min read

A picket line by the University and College Union (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Universities

University staff union slammed for failing to back Israeli lecturer ‘threatened with beheading’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Universities

‘Do I look traumatised? No, I am very angry’: Israeli professor Michael Ben-Gad remains defiant after ‘beheading’ threat

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

Storming City St George's, masked protesters called an Israeli professor a terrorist (Photo: Instagram)

Universities

City University mob calls for ‘terrorist’ Israeli professor to be sacked over IDF service

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

By Louis Danker

My letter to new students: Jewish life on campus is great – we won’t let hate define it

2 min read

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By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Survey of Jewish staff shows the US academy is ‘broken’

A new report details anti Jewish activity on campus

2 min read

September 26, 2025 15:10

Protestors at Harvard University (Image: Getty)

By Isaac Zarfati

Charlie Kirk’s murder is a wake-up call on UK campus antisemitism

When slogans for “Intifada” or “resistance” are tolerated under the cover of free expression, it should surprise no one that some eventually take these words literally

1 min read

September 26, 2025 12:59

Posters calling “Intifada until Victory! The fight for a free Palestine" were plastered on campus. (CST)

CST launches campus antisemitism hotline

The phone line comes following a surge in antisemitism following October 7

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

September 17, 2025 10:02

Anti-Israel graffiti on Hillel House at Leeds University in February 2024

Downing Street defends appointment of former Columbia University chief who oversaw ‘ground zero for campus antisemitism’

Baroness Shafik was accused of ‘failing to protect Jewish students’ during her tenure at the New York college

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

September 1, 2025 13:36

Former Columbia Univerity President Baroness Minouche Shafik has been appointed to a new role by Sir Keir Starmer. (Photo by Indy Scholtens/Getty Images)

By Natasha Hausdorff

A glimmer of hope at Oxford amid endemic antisemitism across British campuses

The new Tikvah Scholarships at St Anne’s College – funded by non-Jewish charity LUCK – send a powerful message to Jews and Israelis: you belong here and you are wanted. Other universities must also grasp this opportunity

4 min read

August 19, 2025 11:04

Pro-Palestine encampment set up by student activists in front of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on May 6, 2024

UCLA was ‘deliberately indifferent’ to antisemitism on campus, federal investigation finds

‘Treating Jews like second-class citizens is wrong, illegal and very costly’ said one of the plaintiffs

By Aaron Bandler

3 min read

July 30, 2025 08:09

University of California Police officers face pro-Palestinian protesters outside Dodd Hall at UCLA (Image: Getty)

Columbia president tried to remove Jewish ‘mole’ on university board

Newly published emails show that Claire Shipman downplayed concerns about campus antisemitism and called for the dismissal of one of the institution’s ‘most outspoken Jewish advocates’

By Andrew Bernard

1 min read

July 3, 2025 15:29

Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia University, has apologised after it emerged she called for the removal of a Jewish member of the university's board (Image: Getty)

‘Gas the Jews’ graffiti, a desecrated mezuzah, and Jewish staff crying on campus: Goldsmiths inquiry reveals scale of antisemitism at London university

The Vice Chancellor has apologised after an independent report revealed a ‘disturbing picture’ of everyday life for Jews at the institution

By Imogen Garfinkel

4 min read

June 26, 2025 16:10

Mohinderpal Sethi KC of Littleton Chambers, who chaired the inquiry, concluded that there was a culture of antisemitism at Goldsmiths college. (Wikimedia Commons)

US suspends student visa applications over college antisemitism probe

The pause will allow the Trump administration to set up procedures to vet candidates’ social media activity

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

May 28, 2025 09:52

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has paused new applications for student visas ahead of the rollout of new social media vetting standards (Image: Getty)

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Antisemitism on campus

‘I understand antisemitism because I was born in Russia’

The targeting of Israeli Professor Michael Ben-Gad: Britain’s academic freedom crisis

Universities must rein in scourge of hate they left unchecked for so long

University staff union slammed for failing to back Israeli lecturer ‘threatened with beheading’

‘Do I look traumatised? No, I am very angry’: Israeli professor Michael Ben-Gad remains defiant after ‘beheading’ threat

City University mob calls for ‘terrorist’ Israeli professor to be sacked over IDF service

My letter to new students: Jewish life on campus is great – we won’t let hate define it

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Survey of Jewish staff shows the US academy is ‘broken’

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Downing Street defends appointment of former Columbia University chief who oversaw ‘ground zero for campus antisemitism’

A glimmer of hope at Oxford amid endemic antisemitism across British campuses

UCLA was ‘deliberately indifferent’ to antisemitism on campus, federal investigation finds

Columbia president tried to remove Jewish ‘mole’ on university board

‘Gas the Jews’ graffiti, a desecrated mezuzah, and Jewish staff crying on campus: Goldsmiths inquiry reveals scale of antisemitism at London university

US suspends student visa applications over college antisemitism probe