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Campus Nazis

Universities are hotbeds of anti-Semitism

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

The Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) last week endorsed Israeli Apartheid Week, the annual campus event designed to delegitimise the Middle East’s only functioning democracy. Israeli Apartheid Week is closely associated with individuals who deny Israel’s right to exist, and undertake anti-Semitic harassment, intimidation and bullying. True to form, it has emerged that during the endorsement debate speakers expressed sympathy with terrorist organisation Hamas, and used the insulting term ‘Zio’ to describe Jews, a phrase normally confined to the Ku Klux Klan.

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Matthew Lesh is a former Director of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students

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