{"id":110704,"date":"2024-02-10T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=110704"},"modified":"2024-02-10T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T08:08:39","slug":"14-00-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=110704","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitic Vandals Strike Hillel Building at University of Leeds in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Antisemitic Vandals Strike Hillel Building at University of Leeds in UK<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Dion J. Pierre<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Antisemitic message graffitied on Hillel House of University of Leeds. Photo: Union of Jewish Students\/X<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Hillel House of University of Leeds was vandalized on Thursday night, raising further concerns about a hateful campus climate and rising antisemitism across the United Kingdom, particularly since Hamas\u2019 October 7 attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The vandals, according to pictures shared online, graffitied \u201cFREE PALESTINE\u201d on the building and additional scribble on two window panes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are heartbroken and angry that after an uplifting and inspiring Challah Bake, our JSoc Hillel House was defaced with antisemitic graffiti,\u201d Leeds JSoc, which uses the building for club meetings, said in a statement also signed by the Union of Jewish Students, an advocacy group. \u201cIt is shocking and outrageous that those who hate us would stoop to this level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The groups noted that a University of Leeds professor may be responsible for leading anti-Zionist to the building, alleging that he shared its address \u201cfor the sole purpose of intimidating Jewish students on campus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working with CST and the police to ensure that those who committed this crime get the consequences they deserve,\u201d the group added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-Zionists extremists struck elsewhere on Thursday, storming University of Birmingham with socialists and other far-left groups while holding signs that said, \u201cZionists off our campus\u201d and \u201c75 years of illegal occupation!\u201d Many concealed their faces, covering them with keffiyeh.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJewish students are feeling less and less safe at university because of these vile antisemitic acts,\u201d National Jewish Assembly (NJA), a Jewish civil rights nonprofit, said in a statement about the incidents. \u201cIt\u2019s time we say enough. Jewish students deserve and must feel safe on campus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s incidents followed a set-back for the academic Jewish community. Earlier this week, it was\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0that a UK government agency which arbitrates disputes over employment law ruled that University of Bristol lacked standing to\u00a0fire<\/a>\u00a0sociologist David Miller, an extreme anti-Zionist who was accused of harassing Jewish students and promoting antisemitic tropes, and said his \u201canti-Zionist beliefs qualified as a philosophical belief and as a protected characteristic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Pervasive antisemitism and anti-Zionism at UK universities is forcing members of the Jewish academic community to conceal their identities on campus, according to a June 2023 report\u00a0issued<\/a>\u00a0by the Parliamentary Task Force on Antisemitism in Higher Education, a committee of lawmakers and established by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2022 in response to complaints of anti-Jewish racism and discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were told it was commonplace for Jewish students to choose not to wear certain clothing or jewelry around campus because it would make them visibly identifiable as Jewish,\u201d the Task Force wrote in the report, titled\u00a0Understanding Jewish Experience in Higher Education<\/em><\/a>, noting that academic staff \u201calso raised important comparable concerns about negativity surrounding their Jewish identity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Task Force recommended that all universities adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which, it said, has not, contrary to the claims of its many opponents, diminished free speech and academic freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

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