Content warning: antisemitism and strong language Last week, antisemitic graffiti was found in the Christal McMillan Building toilets. The racial slur was photographed by fourth-year history student, Christopher Marland, who posted the photo on social media. The graffiti comes after a tumultuous few weeks for British Jewry that has included the hounding of a […]
University of Edinburgh rector Ann Henderson has issued a response to The Student regarding her refusal to support the UK Labour party adopting the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. Henderson has been strongly criticised by Edinburgh Labour Students (ELS), as well as “disappointed” Edinburgh University Students’ Association President Eleri Connick, for her position on […]
A motion proposing that the Students’ Association publicly condemn antisemitism was debated in Student Council on the night of Thursday 27 October. The contention surrounding this motion mainly focused on the definition of antisemitism which the motion employed. The motion utilised the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)’s working definition of antisemitism, […]
At first glance the comments Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defended in his recently published book A More Perfect Union – that the Jews could’ve prevented the Holocaust if only they had guns – is just another bizarre, generically offensive statement that we have come to expect from these Republican presidential candidates. It’s the sort […]
Let me say it bluntly. Leftwing students and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign have a huge problem with antisemitism. On Thursday 2 April, the night before Passover and at the last student council of the year, a motion was tabled asking Edinburgh University’s Student Association (EUSA) to affiliate with the BDS movement against Israel. […]