Jewish students across the UK are choosing not to wear religious symbols such as Kippahs or necklaces displaying the Star of David for fear of being subjected to anti-Semitic attacks on campus.
The warning, provided to LBC by the Union of Jewish Students, which represents 9,000 students across 70 campuses, comes amid a startling rise in the number of students that have faced such abuse since the onset of the war between Israel and Hamas - a development Higher Education Minister Robert Halfon has described as “intolerable”.
Read more: LBC caller details 'disgusting anti-Semitic' act he witnessed, as hate crimes rise in fall out of Israel-Hamas warThere has also been a formal complaint made by a student at one British university about a senior volunteer member of the students union who is accused of antisemitism after posting a message on a student Discord channel claiming the term Jew is synonymous with “occupier”.
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