{"id":493452,"date":"2025-10-12T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493452\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:28:11","slug":"universities-must-act-on-antisemitism-bridget-phillipson-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493452\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities must act on antisemitism, Bridget Phillipson says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking on the programme, Conservative shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel said the Labour government should be “gripping” antisemitism in the UK, including what she branded “hate marches where people are being so racist to the Jewish community”.<\/p>\n

She argued “hatred” was demonstrated on the streets of London on Saturday, when thousands of protesters gathered for a rally in support of Palestinians.<\/p>\n

There have also been regular protests staged at universities over the conflict in Gaza, including on the second anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The protests went ahead despite the pleas of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who urged students not to take part, warning of “rising antisemitism on our streets”.<\/p>\n

The demonstrations came days after two Jewish men were killed in a terrorist attack at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n

A report by CST, external<\/a> last year found a 117% increase in antisemitic incidents on university campuses in the 2022\/23 and 2023\/2024 academic years, when compared with the preceding two years.<\/p>\n

Phillipson said she had spoken to Jewish students who felt they needed to conceal their identity.<\/p>\n

“On campus, Jewish students don’t feel safe,” she said. “And often, parents worry about sending their children to university. We cannot accept that. There can be no place for it.”<\/p>\n

The education secretary said she had written to university vice-chancellors urging them to take steps to protect Jewish students from harassment.<\/p>\n

The government said the Union of Jewish Students will deliver 600 training sessions to help university staff support students, identify harassment and hate.<\/p>\n

A \u00a34m fund will support projects that teach pupils and students how to identify misinformation online and promote interfaith understanding.<\/p>\n

Separately, \u00a32m is being put towards a scheme to teach secondary school pupils in England about the Holocaust – the genocide of Jews during World War Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking on the programme, Conservative shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel said the Labour government should be “gripping” antisemitism…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-493452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115360963261846909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}