How I was stalked by a masked man, mocked, told I had 'Jewish eyes' and publicly vilified by a baying mob when I visited the pro-Palestinian university protest camps that have terrified Jewish student
But conversations with British Jewish students reveal that they feel 'threatened' and 'terrified' by the encampments, which they claim are pro-war and pro-violence. Signs and flags bearing the insignia of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Revolutionary Communist Party are also scattered around the Cambridge camp. On fundraising website Chuffed, the Cambridge student body has attracted more than £10,000 to supply campers with 'aid'. A fourth-year Jewish student at Cambridge tells me: 'I don't think most of these people really understand the violent things they are chanting. The Oxford protesters have six demands, while the Cambridge camp have composed a rather less snappy eight-page letter.
Source: The Star May 11, 2024 13:08 UTC
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