The National Union of Students (NUS) has received protracted criticism for its approach towards antisemitism. This issue reared its head once again last month, when tweets from Ali Milani, the NUS’s newly elected vice president, surfaced. From 2012 and 2013, these tweets are overtly antisemitic in nature. In one post,...
Statement on Election of New NUS President Shakira Martin
Statement by Aviva Slomich, International Campus Director at CAMERA, on the election of Shakira Martin “CAMERA welcomes the election of Shakira Martin as the new President of the National Union of Students (NUS). The defeated incumbent, Malia Bouattia, has peddled antisemitic conspiracy theories, talked about the “Zionist led media” and called Birmingham...
The Guardian Whitewashes Charges of Antisemitism Against Malia Bouattia
An article in the Guardian, written by their education correspondent Sally Weale, focused on recent reports of hate crimes targeting Jews at Exeter, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sussex and University College London. Among the people interviewed in the article (UK universities urged to a tackle rising tide of antisemitism, Feb. 18th) was NUS President Malia Bouattia....
The Challenges Faced by UK University Students
Today, the National Union of Students (NUS), the body representing seven million students in the UK, has its national conference. One Jewish delegate, Izzy Lenga, has written an article “Why I won`t be at tomorrow`s NUS NEC meeting”, in which she describes the hostile environment that Jewish students are facing...
Coming Together to Re-energize
When pro-Israel students are bombarded with criticism, baseless hatred, and negativity, they must respond and defend themselves. But it is also important for these amazing students to keep up a positive attitude and give themselves a pat on the back for fighting for the truth. And that is exactly what UCL(University College London) Friends...
We Can Only Be Optimistic
As the academic calendar comes to a close in the UK, the new challenges begin to open on campus. On Wednesday the 20th of April, delegates of the UK National Union of Students gathered together in Brighton to vote for their new NUS president. This elected role of president is...