When protests swept the world following the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, British universities rushed to issue statements of solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Anti-racism campaigns and diversity-training sessions were stepped-up, as were drives to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum.

The response to last month’s brutal slaughter of over 1,400 people by Hamas terrorists could not be more different. Rather than demonstrations in support of Israel, it is anti-Semitism that has risen dramatically at UK universities in the past three weeks. The Community Security Trust has recorded 64 incidents of anti-Semitism on British campuses since 7 October. This compares to 17 cases recorded in the first six months of this year. …

The intimidation Jewish students experience at British universities is a serious problem. Yet anti-Semitism has, over many years, been normalised rather than challenged.

[The same is true on American campuses, too, and for the same reason: the transformation of higher education into indoctrination of hard-Left ideologies. The West is buying the rope from the Marxists that want to strangle its civilization. — Ed]