Tories Demand Deportation of Antisemitic Foreign Students
The Conservatives have called on Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, to deport antisemitic foreign students from the UK. The Telegraph has more.
In a letter to Ms Phillipson, seen by the Telegraph, the Tories raised concerns over a “deeply troubling rise in antisemitic behaviour… particularly on university campuses”.
The party urged the Government to use existing powers under the Immigration Act 1971 to revoke the visas of any foreign citizens who harassed or intimidated members of the Jewish community.
Laura Trott, the Shadow Education Secretary, and Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, also called for the deportation of foreign citizens, including students, who expressed antisemitism or voice their support for extremism or terrorism.
The Tories’ proposals echo the Trump administration’s visa crackdown on foreign students accused of antisemitism, which has placed the president on a war footing against many Ivy League colleges.
Reports of antisemitic abuse at British universities reached record levels last year in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct 7th 2023. Incidents included Jewish students being pelted with eggs after an event with the Chief Rabbi, and swastika graffiti at a National Union of Students conference.
The Community Security Trust (CST), a charity set up to protect British Jews from abuse and harassment, recorded a high of 272 incidents on campuses in 2023-24.
Writing to Ms Phillipson, as well as Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, the Tories said “vile racism has no place in our society, and we must act collectively to stamp it out”.
They wrote: “Too many institutions that have spent years suppressing legitimate free speech and debate in the name of ‘diversity and inclusion’ have decided to turn a blind eye to genuine harassment and intimidation when it is directed against Jewish people.
“Failure to act sends a dangerous message to Jewish students and academics that their safety is not valued, and to perpetrators that they can harass Jewish students and staff with impunity… We can, and must, do better. Enough is enough.”
The Tories’ calls for deportation are understood to come after Jewish leaders told them universities had become epicentres for antisemitism in the UK. Although the incitement of racial hatred by a student can trigger deportation procedures, this rarely happens.
Worth reading in full.
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I suspect a lot of these students and others from whence many antisemitics are drawn arrived under various Fake Conservative governments over the last three quarters of a century
Make it simpler.
Deport Muslims.
All of them.
Yes, as the Norwegian blogger named “Fjordman” warned decades ago,
“Islam Must Be Expelled from the West”.
Tories demand thia and that but we all remember they were in office when the infection turned into putrid rot.
I think the same should apply to doctors. An overt hatred of Jews coupled with support for terrorism should ensure you get your marching orders from any organization, especially one that’s supposed to uphold a code of medical ethics and where you’re expected to treat all patients, irrespective of faith, gender, ethnicity etc. These vile people have gotten too comfortable and too cocky weaponizing the liberal laws that underpin democracies here in the West. Where freedom of speech/expression/to protest is actually a valuable right that we should fight to maintain. But when does that freedom of speech morph into something more sinister and threatening? ”There’s a sickness in Britain’s institutions: they fear being called racist more than they fear racism itself. That is how a doctor who glorified a massacre, denied a genocide, and preached hatred of an entire people was allowed to treat patients long after any sane society would have shown her the door. The case of Dr Rahmeh Aladwan isn’t an oddity. It’s a sign of a culture that has lost the courage to defend itself. For months this woman used her public platform to call Israelis “worse than Nazis,” to claim that the Holocaust was a… Read more »
As we cannot get into peoples’ minds we cannot know about their hatred. It is when it is manifested that action should be taken.
I think it’s been manifested more than enough and broadcast for all and sundry at these godawful hate marches that’ve been rammed down our throats week in, week out. Don’t you?
Any visa (student or whatever) should be withdrawn if the holder is convicted of pretty much anything. If the visa is withdrawn, then out they go.
It easy to demand what the people want, when you dont have to do it. And when they could do it, they would not have done it.
“Tories Demand Deportation of Anti-Semitic Students”.
Can we plebs also Demand Deportation of Anti-Christian Students?
I don’t see any difference…
Manalive, what has this place become, It’s quite clear.. Divide et impera
As attributed to French Philosopher VOLTAIRE, If you want to know who controls you, LOOK AT WHO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious who is subversibly destroying the UK and it needs publicly exposing before the WEF infiltrators enforce their bolshevik totalitarian agenda on us all.
Why not anti-British ones, first?