The National Union of Students has been branded a “hostile environment” for Jews in a damning independent report into antisemitism at the organisation stretching back more than a decade.
The report (which can be read in full here) by Rebecca Tuck KC found that the NUS had consistently ignored and dismissed antisemitism, often demoting complaints because of bias over the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Ms Tuck detailed accounts from Jewish students who felt “reduced to being only ‘the Jew’ in the room” and that they were “treated as a pariah at NUS events”.
They were “answerable for Israel, responsible to call out any antisemitism, seen to represent every single Jew in the student population, and stripped of any other characteristics”, she wrote.
The report said while NUS staff have challenged Jew-hate on the far right, they often failed to tackle or recognise antisemitism among pro-Palestinian activists. In that context, complaints of antisemitism among students came to be viewed as being made in “bad faith” and the report detailed numerous accounts of staff failing to challenge outright Jew-hatred or investigate allegations made by Jewish students.
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