by Jules Gomes, Focus on Western Islamism
A bombshell investigation by the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) has revealed a significant spike in Islamist-driven antisemitism on British university campuses, including the revival of blood libels, since the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023.
The normalization of antisemitism affects nearly 10,000 Jewish university students across Britain, as one in five non-Jewish students openly admit that they would be reluctant to, or would never, share a house with a Jewish student, as per a poll conducted by the UJS.
Published on March 16, 2026, the report, titled “Time for Change: A Landmark Report on UK Campus Antisemitism,” links the rise in Jew-hatred to Islamist pro-Palestinian activism, with 49 percent of students having heard slogans or chants glorifying Hamas, Hezbollah, or other proscribed groups and student groups explicitly calling for violence against Jews.
While student groups have even justified the Islamist terrorist attack on Jews at Bondi Beach in December 2025, 47 percent of students have witnessed justification of the October 7 attacks, rising to 77 percent among those who encounter Israel-Palestine protests regularly.
Almost one in four students reported hearing speech or seeing behavior that targets students specifically for their Jewish religion or ethnicity. In one case, a flat of non-Jewish students shared on social media that they had “only one rule—no Zios in the flat.”
“Zio,” the report notes, “is an antisemitic slur and a code word for Jew coined by the former Grand Wizard of the KKK, David Duke.”
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