The Jewish Chronicle has published a blistering essay by a non-Jewish academic about the alarming levels of anti-semitism she encounters on a daily basis at her university. It’s an anonymous piece because she doesn’t want to be targeted by ‘anti-Zionist’ loons on her campus, but every bit rings true. It begins:
As a non-Jewish lecturer at a major university, I can confirm that British academia is structurally racist against Jews. The penny finally dropped as I was second-marking a piece of undergraduate writing in which Jews were openly compared to scurrying vermin, spreading disease.
The student’s illiterate use of grammar, nonsensical punctuation and mixed metaphors would surely have embarrassed Goebbels. But Hitler’s arch propagandist would just as surely have approved of the spirit of the piece. Not that this was a uniquely awful specimen of the kind of “work” I’ve had to face as first and second marker of a large cohort of students since the horror of October 7th.
A different piece, produced by a student in the same year group, accused its readers, in the foulest language, of complicity with “genocide” and of “sleeping” while the IDF killed innocent civilians for target practice.
The obvious Jew-hatred of these pieces of writing were one thing. But then there were the comments of the first academic who had marked them, which praised the “Jews-as-vermin” piece as a moving indictment of Israeli “colonisation” that displayed a fine philosophical turn of phrase and a carefulness of language. As for the “genocide” piece, my colleague reassured the student that his message was deeply important.
This, in a nutshell, is the problem: not the fact that immature, 20-year-old students have been brought up on a diet of hating the West, hating Jews and unashamedly milking their self-declared victim status, but the fact that this pernicious nonsense is actively encouraged, praised and taught by the academy – and has been for decades. Ever since the late 1960s, higher education in the West has been infiltrated by a steady stream of nefarious actors, who claim victimhood and make allegations of “Islamophobia” on the one hand and spout racist hate speech against Jews on the other. The ultimate bait-and-switch.
The academics in question may not be paid agitators but they nonetheless fall over themselves to support one kind of non-white student (any kind of Muslim) over other kinds of minority non-white student (Jews or Christians from Africa, Israel, or elsewhere in the Middle East), no matter the hypocrisies involved.
I ask myself, for example, how the academic who had praised the diatribes would have responded to a piece of coursework in which Muslims in Britain were depicted as diseased vermin? Would said student have been given a first-class mark, as was the proposed grade here? The answer, for those of you asleep at the back, is no: the student would have been hauled up before an anti-racism panel and referred to Prevent before you could say “parody”.
Yet when I suggested a lower grade for the student in question (based on the woeful quality of the piece, rather than the racist slurs) and commented that the work that was uneducated at best, offensive at worst – which, after all, was my job as their tutor – my feedback was removed by the university lest there be negative public repercussions. As a compromise, a high 2:1 was awarded instead.
In my decades as a lecturer, I’ve often seen the bigotry of low expectations masquerading as positive discrimination, which no one in my line of work seems to care is still unlawful in the UK. But since October 7th, a new low in racist cognitive dissonance seems to have become commonplace.
Teaching people that “Palestine” was originally Muslim until it was colonised by Jews is so wrong, factually and historically as well as morally, that even as a non-Jewish academic, I can no longer keep quiet.
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We’re being led into a New Dark Age, and it’s our universities which are in the vanguard.
Yes there’s so many similar stories no matter where you look. This lecturer has 100 colleagues and students wanting her to be sacked ( ”stand down”? ) just because she attended a Tommy Robinson rally and agrees with what he stands for. Free speech is dead in higher education, it really is shameful. They just come for you, en masse, like bullies;
”An academic at Newcastle University has come under fire after being filmed participating in a political “Unite the Country” rally organised by Tommy Robinson in October 2024.
Dr Helen Adamson, PGR Co-Director in the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (SNES) at Newcastle University, can be heard in the clip, filmed by PoliticsJoe, saying: “As a Christian I’m beginning to feel persecuted. I’m beginning to feel like I’m losing my freedom of speech. There’s things I can’t say, I can say something that’s just opinion and it might be accused for instance of being Islamophobic.”
Dr Adamson continued: “I’m concerned about things like the media who label Tommy Robinson as far right and racist and I don’t think he is. I don’t know the man but I’ve listened to what he’s said and I’ve never heard him incite violence, I’ve only heard him ask for peace.
“I’ve never heard him say anything racist, he’s got lots of friends from overseas of different skin colours and so that kind of that bias and that propaganda, I find that really scary.”
In the open letter, students have urged the university to “take immediate action” in response to this: “We must also acknowledge the impact that this interview has on the students who interact with Dr Adamson, especially in light of her pastoral remit.”
The letter requests Dr Adamson step down from her position as SNES PGR Co-Director: “We are requesting that Dr Adamson step down from her position as SNES PGR Co-Director in response to our expression of no confidence. Should this not be attainable, we wish for SNES PGRs to be able to opt out from having Dr Adamson representing them in her capacity as SNES PGR Co-Director. Instead, SNES PGRs should have the autonomy to request alternative representation.”
https://thetab.com/2024/12/05/newcastle-university-lecturer-faces-backlash-after-attending-tommy-robinson-rally
Paging insurrectionist!
3-2-1…
I suppose the Moderator will have to work Friday evening too…………
Absolutely, just reported that post…
Oh dear, is your thought process as empty and as sad as that
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Suggestion…. Errr get a life…
As a proctologist I come across a lot of arseholes in my professional life, and consider myself something of an expert.
Fascinating to come across such a fine example in these pages.
I’m buying pitchfork futures.
Anything from the Jewish Chronicle is not going to to be unbiased and, in a recent video (possibly Jeffrey Sachs on Judging Freedom?), a US lecturer said he had never experienced any anti-Semitism whatsoever in all the decades he had been lecturing at his university. So the claim that British universities are ripe with anti-Semitism is probably vastly exaggerated, whereby it has only become public knowledge in the past few months that Israel is committing genocide against its Palestinian population so there may justifiably be recent anger at the current Israeli government’s actions and the unconditional support of both US and UK governments (and others).
What I find fascinating is the attitude of many DS readers and publishers who also unconditionally defend Israel’s actions and even happily extort the Israelis to kill more and more Palestinians. I can write reports claiming that thousands upon thousands of men, women and children are being bombed, machine-gunned or starved to death, but a majority reaction is to applaud these crimes.
One can argue that international law is biased or non-existent, but the fact that both the ICC and ICJ condemn Israel for committing genocide should surely have some meaning.
If, say, Spain would murder and bomb Portuguese citizens, or even bomb France, surely there would be uproar also in these pages? Somehow, Israel may happily and continually bomb its own people and surrounding countries, yet nobody in the Western world complains.
Please explain why Israel may happily murder en masse and only be cheered on by DS readers.
The up tick was on minus 1 when i went to click on it its gone to zero…
I agree with your post, the readers here just love to live through and applaud the most documented genocide in history….
This occurrence can only be, and is from one thing… The absorption of the Zionist propaganda……thats why not one will answer you and explain…. Not one..
Ps Toby Young is a Zionist
“Anything from the Jewish Chronicle is not going to to be unbiased ” that is a fair comment.
however, considering a vast proportion of English people get their news from the egregiously biased anti-Jew BBC, it is notable the large support the Israeli govt has among ethic English people (as opposed to the imported muslim segment of the population) in its struggle to extirpate the hamas cancer.
Accusation is not evidence. Denunciation of those you hate for ideological and political reasons is the tactic of tyrants and particularly favoured by Marxist-Socialists.
“anti-semitism”….
A construct from 1946….
This is not new. There is something about the sociopsychology of universites that make them vulnerable to such irrational extremism. In Germany in the early 1930s the universities were hotbeds of antisemititism and were amongst the first bodies to expel Jews. In this country the law would not allow it, but I fear that it will soon become de facto impossible for Jewish people to work in or study at some British universities.
And breeding grounds for Socialism/Communism.
Let’s stop calling it “anti-semitism” as there is an incomplete understanding of that in many minds, and it skirts the reality.
Let’s call it what it is: anti-Jewish, anti-Jew.
For 400 years or so, Jews – after being resettled here by Oliver Crowell – have been an intégral part of our culture, economy and civil society, able to live their lives without fear just because they are Jews.
Now after over two decades of cultural enrichment, we are become 1930s Germany, with the streets filled with anti-Jewish thugs and Jews live in fear just because they are Jews, whilst our Two-Tier police and justice system stand idle.
(I speak as a non-Jew.)