A shocking new report – Time For Change – by the Union of Jewish Students reveals how Jewish students on UK campuses increasingly feel unwelcome and unsafe.
Out-of-control protests around the war in Gaza have evolved into naked antisemitism in which Jewish students are threatened and abused and have experienced a widespread disruption of Jewish life at British universities. Disturbingly, students polled by JL Partners between 26 January and 4 February 2026 at over 170 higher education institutions revealed an alarming 20% would not consider sharing accommodation with a Jew, and a growing number of students can’t even recognise antisemitism when the see or hear it.
The problems are apparently worse the more posh the university. Oddly, this is the least surprising revelation.
While antisemitism is becoming “normalised”, the glorification of proscribed terrorist groups goes unchallenged and unpunished by either university authorities or the police, and the government seems slow to recognise the problem.
It makes bleak reading. Though it provides comprehensive recommendations for action, one hopes that institutional inertia hasn’t left things too late.
