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Nottingham Trent University
November 10, 2023, 10:27 am
Police urged to probe ‘antisemitic attack’ on first-year university students
Flat used by Jewish undergraduates at Nottingham Trent is broken into and trashed, with hateful, threatening graffiti allegedly daubed on walls
By Lee Harpin
Chaplaincy team
September 7, 2023, 10:36 am
University Jewish Chaplaincy gathers for annual training seminar
16 advocates for Jewish students at universities across the UK hold event to strengthen its nationwide support network
By Michelle Rosenberg
Luciana Berger during a press conference at which she announced her resignation from the Labour Party. (Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
June 11, 2023, 12:32 am
Standing ovation for Berger as she gives first Labour speech since return to the party
Luciana Berger gave the keynote speech to the rejuvenated Labour Students group at their conference in Edinburgh
By Lee Harpin
May 22, 2023, 12:42 pm
New higher education report reveals Jewish students ‘underlying fear of being targeted’
New parliamentary Taskforce on Antisemitism in Higher Education report says it is 'commonplace' for students not to wear 'certain clothing or jewellery around campus because it would make them visibly identifiable as Jewish'
By Lee Harpin
Goldsmiths University (Source: twitter)
May 18, 2023, 10:44 am
Goldsmiths University confirm barrister-led inquiry into antisemitism claims
Senior KC Mohinderpal Sethi will lead the probe, with Jewish students and staff, past and present, asked to respond to call for evidence and submit testimonies of their experiences at the London institution
By Lee Harpin
Ex-NUS president Shaima Dallali was ousted from the union in November 2022 over antisemitism claims.
January 12, 2023, 8:16 am
Report: National Union of Students has failed to protect Jews for 17 years
The damning 108-page investigation, by KC Rebecca Tuck, concludes that the NUS encouraged a “hostile environment” and committed key breaches of the Equality Act 2010.
By Lee Harpin
The wild boar is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig.
January 5, 2023, 11:35 am
National Education Union magazine claims Israelis use ‘wild pigs’ to scare Palestinians
Member Mohammed Aziz wrote an article in the organisation's in-house title claiming settlers in the West Bank train the animals to scare their neighbours. NEU later removed the wild pig reference from the article
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Large group of members of the Union of Jewish Students
December 12, 2022, 10:16 am
Jewish students viewed as ‘agents of a government many of them have no connection to’
Union of Jewish Students president Joel Rosen speaks of 'subtle, more insidious cases of political antisemitism' relating to the Israel/Palestine issue across UK campuses
By Lee Harpin
November 3, 2022, 11:50 pm
Kerem School looks at the many faces of Israel
An innovative project teaches pupils about the many cultures that make up the Jewish community
By Sharon Walters
Google (Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash)
October 26, 2022, 12:07 am
Google & Reichman University in Israel to establish ‘school of high-tech’
Google pledged earlier this year to invest £22 million in diversifying high-tech employment in Israel
By Jotam Confino
Special needs school Side by Side open in Stamford Hill, October 24, 2022.
October 25, 2022, 2:25 pm
New special needs school in London opens: ‘A dream come true’
Side by Side has offered children with special educational needs a chance to learn new skills since its establishment in 2001.
By Jotam Confino
Jerusalem, Israel. 15th, June 2021. Parliament Member BEZALEL SMOTRICH of the Religious Zionism Party joins thousands identifying with the nationaloist religious Zionist streams marching in the annual Dance of Flags March from downtown Jerusalem to the Damascus Gate, Jaffa Gate
October 19, 2022, 1:50 pm
Bnei Akiva urged to distance itself from yeshiva after exec backs far-right extremist
Head of overseas programmes at Yeshivat Hakotel supports Religious Zionism Party leader Betzalel Smotrich, whose views on Arabs, gay people and reform Jews have sparked outrage.
By Jotam Confino
University of Birmingham students; Students walking in Chancellors Court, Edgbaston campus, Birmingham university UK - Image ID: D4J3CP
October 6, 2022, 9:34 am
Uni scraps Arab-Israeli conflict course after one lecture over alleged ‘antisemitic comment’
University of Birmingham would not directly answer Jewish News' questions, simple stating the module had been abruptly shelved due to “unforeseen circumstances”.
By Adam Decker
New UJS president Joel Rosen interviews Jeremy Corbyn
August 17, 2022, 1:25 pm
New UJS president vows to ‘represent the full diversity of Jewish students’
Joel Rosen, new UJS president, was widely praised for his showdown with Jeremy Corbyn in a Cambridge Union debate, which he says convinced him of the ex-Labour leader's 'denialist mentality'
By Lee Harpin
Larissa Kennedy is questioned by parliamentary committee
June 28, 2022, 12:44 pm
Government is jumping on antisemitism bandwagon, says NUS chief
EXCLUSIVE: Larissa Kennedy made the comments to student union leaders on zoom after the Government cut ties with the body
By Sabrina Miller
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