The Prime Minister has summoned vice-chancellors to a meeting this week to discuss antisemitism on campuses
Students gather around their tents during a protest in support of Palestinian people, at Kings College at Cambridge University in Cambridge Downing Street has urged university leaders to take “robust action” to protect students from harassment, as pro-Palestine encampments spread across UK campuses.
He said: “Our university campuses should be places of rigorous debate, but they should also be tolerant places where people of all communities, particularly Jewish students at this time, are treated with respect.” “We expect university leaders to take robust action in dealing with that kind of behaviour and that will be the subject of the conversation in No 10 later this week to ensure a zero-tolerance approach to this sort of behaviour is adopted on all campuses.”
More than 100 people attended a demonstration outside King’s College, Cambridge, on Tuesday – where a protester with a megaphone by the encampment led a chant of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. When asked about concerns about antisemitism, Ms Swain added: “Every single encampment that I have spoken to has a complete zero tolerance policy for all forms of racism.But the Union of Jewish Students has said previously that the protests create a “hostile and toxic atmosphere” on campus for Jewish students.
A spokesperson for Universities UK said: “Universities are monitoring the small number of encampments which have appeared on UK campuses.
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