{"id":281336,"date":"2016-12-23T06:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281336"},"modified":"2020-10-29T06:28:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T10:28:45","slug":"british-universities-no-go-zones-for-jewish-students-top-peer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/british-universities-no-go-zones-for-jewish-students-top-peer\/","title":{"rendered":"British universities \u2018no-go zones\u2019 for Jewish students \u2013 top peer"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
The criminal policies of the rogue Zionist state of Israel are responsible for the worldwide rise in what is wrongly called \u201cantisemitism\u201d. Being anti-Palestinian or anti-Arab is antisemitic as they are also a Semitic people. The good term would be anti-Jewish. If anti-Zionism is necessary, people must be careful not to think that all Jews are Zionists. On the contrary, real Jews are also anti-Zionists as their religion forbid the rebuilding of a Jewish state as long as the Messiah did not arrive in Jerusalem.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Rampant anti-Semitism has turned some of Britain\u2019s top universities into ‘no-go zones’ for Jews, according to a top peer.<\/p>\n

Baroness Ruth Deech, a cross-bench peer who formerly held the highest office dealing with student complaints, says extreme levels of hostility at universities have meant some have gained the reputation of being places where Jewish students are unwelcome.<\/p>\n

She says hostility towards Israel at universities across the country is at the heart of the problem.
\nDeech\u2019s comments come after a series of high-profile incidents at top universities where Jewish students claim they have been verbally or physically attacked.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmongst Jewish students, there is gradually a feeling that there are certain universities that you should avoid,\u201d\u00a0she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely SOAS [in London], Manchester I think is now not so popular because of things [that] have happened there, Southampton, Exeter and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Telegraph, Deech said some institutions are failing to combat hatred against Jewish students because they are\u00a0\u201cafraid of offending\u201d\u00a0their potential investors from Gulf states.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany universities are in receipt of or are chasing very large donations from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states and so on, and maybe they are frightened of offending them,\u201d\u00a0she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why they aren\u2019t doing anything about it, it really is a bad situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the past decade, Saudi Arabia has been one of the largest sources of donations from Islamic countries, much of which is devoted to the study of Islam, the Middle East and Arabic literature.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Daily Mail, a University of Exeter spokesperson said the claims were\u00a0\u201csimply not true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cExeter University not only has a thriving Jewish society, but teaches Jewish studies, the history of the holocaust and has a Jewish chaplain, as part of its multi-faith team,\u201d\u00a0she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cExeter has philanthropic supporters of many faiths , including Jewish, Christian and Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, students at Exeter university were photographed wearing T-shirts with what appeared to be racist slogans at a sports club social event.
\nSlogans included:\u00a0\u201cThe Holocaust was a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n

A University of Southampton spokesperson also denied claims of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n

Last year, the university was forced to cancel a conference on Israel\u2019s right to exist in the face of criticism from opponents who described it as\u00a0\u201cgiving legitimacy to anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of its most respected alumni returned his degree in protest and at least one major patron of the university was said to have been considering withdrawing funding.<\/p>\n

The University of Manchester\u2019s student union has started adopting motions perceived as hostile against Jews, including endorsing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/371431-university-jewish-antisemitism-racism\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The criminal policies of the rogue Zionist state of Israel are responsible for the worldwide rise in what is wrongly called \u201cantisemitism\u201d. Being anti-Palestinian or anti-Arab is antisemitic as they are also a Semitic people. The good term would be anti-Jewish. If anti-Zionism is necessary, people must be careful not to think that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}