MrsBlitz

@DavidPintoD This is why my daughter, currently on a her year abroad, doesn't want to return to UCL.

This makes for shocking reading. Jewish students are facing appalling levels of antisemitism on campus. This is why the Government’s strategy for social cohesion, with its strong measures to tackle extremism, is so welcome and so important

@nicolelampert @UJS_UK A situation made much worse by the absolute refusal to accept there is a problem by VCs

This year my big boy started university and encountered antisemitism that shocked him. A fair bit of it didn’t even bother trying to disguise itself as antizionism but was straight up Jew hatred. So this new polling of students from @UJS_UK does not surprise me. It has found antisemitism normalised in places of learning. And even as university culture emphasises ‘safe spaces’ and ‘trigger warnings’ most students can see that their universities are doing nothing to stamp out hate speech against Jews. It found: 🔵 One in four students (23%) have seen behaviour that targets Jewish students for their religion/ethnicity. 🔵 One in five (20%) students would be reluctant to, or would never, houseshare with a Jewish student. 🔵 Jewish students have told us they have faced physical and verbal abuse, social ostracisation and widespread antisemitic attitudes. 🔵 Glorification of terrorism is prevalent and unpunished. Our research has found that student groups have explicitly called for violence against Jews, even justifying the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in December 2025. 🔵 49% of students have heard slogans or chants glorifying Hamas, Hezbollah or other proscribed groups on campus. 🔵 47% have witnessed justification of the October 7th attacks, rising to 77% among those who encounter Israel-Palestine protests regularly. 🔵 Protests have disrupted learning for 65% of students, and 40% have altered their journey on campus to avoid disruption. Universities where protests are more frequent have seen higher levels of antisemitism, and four in ten (39%) of students who witness regular Israel-Palestine protests have seen Jewish students harassed often. 🔵 69% of students disapprove of protests blocking access to learning, and 82% deem calls to 'globalise the intifada' to be antisemitic. Full report below 👇🏼

If you want to know about anti Jewish hate on campus, see this @stigabell x.com/i/status/20219…

@JakeWSimons And here is why this is still happening:

“From London to Gaza we will have an intifada.” These are people who saw the bloodshed in Manchester and Sydney and thought, yes please. Welcome to Britain's universities.

@nicolelampert @ucl And here's the reason my daughter is reluctant to return to UCL following her year abroad:

London university @ucl is celebrating its 200th anniversary. It was the first English university to allow Jews to study: today Jewish students there face daily attacks and their classmates calling for violence against them. Where is the leadership at UCL to say enough? My piece on the university below 👇🏼

@hearnimator @ucl Nothing is done because the leadership doesn't think there is a problem:

Calls to kill Jews at @ucl witnessed by a Jewish student. Nothing will be done about it

@antisemitism @ucl This is Michael Spence gaslighting everyone on BBC London yesterday, this is UCL today

Today, @UCL turns 200 years old. Happy birthday, UCL! Perhaps its birthday wish should be to root out the antisemitism that has taken hold in the past few years, which has included welcoming incendiary guest speakers spouting age-old conspiracies and enabling a culture in which Jewish students and staff feel unwelcome and unsafe on its campus by looking the other way when pro-Palestine extremists bully and intimidate others, as seen in this video from last year. We hope this milestone prompts a new way forward for Jewish students at UCL.

@CombatASemitism @ucl Michael Spence on BBC London yesterday, UCL today...

“From London to Gaza we will have an intifada.” Students casually calling for the murder of Jews. Right now on the campus of University College London @ucl

@Ben202122 @RichMillett Actually, the dinner was organised by Chabad and the J Soc in order to 'take back the Quad' where the pro-palestine students had set up an encampment. Nobody broke bread together.

@RichMillett The first thought that came to my head were that the ‘Jewish’ students were part of JVP and were also part of the protest. But this also helped enlighten me…… antisemitism.org/ucl-provost-ha…

Who’s this idiot academic forcing Jewish students to sit next to Jew-haters for Friday night dinner? And he’s proud of it!!!

@RichMillett Spence 'proud' yesterday. Here are the scenes at UCL today...

@DovForman @ucl

“From London to Gaza we will have an intifada.” A chant openly calling for the murder of Jews on my campus just now… Will @ucl stay silent as normal?

My daughter, a UCL student, faced antisemitism on campus after Oct 7 2023. She is currently on her year abroad and doesn't want to return to UCL. Here's why.

@TheStage @rbo_org "vehement opposition from across its workforce" 180 signatories out of over 1000 staff. Bullies. Cultural boycotts achieve nothing. Shameful.

The Royal Ballet and Opera (@rbo_org) has scrapped a planned run of its new production of Tosca in Israel following vehement opposition from across its workforce 👇 #Echobox=1754309389" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thestage.co.uk/news/news/roya…

“I received a screenshot from a colleague who went on the self checker and found sure enough that his data had been released.” The MoD data leaks is a “very serious" and will cost the British government a “huge amount of money", says Professor at UCL, Brad Blitz.

@ArianeTodes Always.

Still the definitive Sherlock. Don’t @ me.

@o_sheilagh @HeidiBachram @strangebrewbriz Exactly. Are they actually being discriminated against because some band members are Jewish? They are not saying 'nationality' (Israeli, for instance), they used the word 'ethnicity', (Jewish is an ethnicity)

@MrsBlitz @HeidiBachram @strangebrewbriz Ethnic discrimination is still discrimination and against equality law

A famous Klezmer band Oi Va Voi has just been cancelled by their Bristol venue because some of their members are Israeli. This is discrimination based on nationality. Xenophobia. Disgusting. @strangebrewbriz

@ArianeTodes Seems positive

I like Nicholas Cullinan, the new director of British Museum, already. Great interview in The Times.

@habibi_uk Also, Tarek Younis is at Middlesex University. He was a guest lecturer at UCL.

The following academics are in this toxic mix: Usaama Al-Azami of Oxford, Jeroen Gunning of LSE, and Tarek Younis of UCL. Another triumph for the academy.

@habibi_uk Do not forward the link to the Hamas case: it includes the following "Legal Disclaimer: By entering this website you acknowledge that none of the contents can be understood as supporting, or expressing support for proscribed terrorist organisations under the Terrorism Act 2000."