Britain – Chief Rabbi calls for action over campus hate

Sir Jonathan Sacks

Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks has called on university vice-chancellors to take greater action to defend Jewish students who are made to feel like “pariahs” on campuses around the UK. He called on the chancellors to “defend freedom of speech on all sides and all arguments. It must never be students of this or that faith who feel vulnerable or at risk or like pariahs on a university campus.” He was shocked that there were campuses “where some Jewish students were too afraid to show any outward signs of their Jewish identity.”

Sir Jonathan’s comments followed a meeting at the House of Commons when he addressed a meeting on the government’s progress report on the response, one year on, to the Parliamentary All-Party Inquiry into Antisemitism’s 35 recommendations.

Source: www.thejc.com

By Leon Symons

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