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August 7, 2024, 9:15 am

UCL granted High Court order to clear out Gaza protest encampment

The university took legal action against the “unauthorised occupational encampment” on its main site, claiming activists were trespassing on private land.

By Jewish News Reporter

June 19, 2020, 11:56 am

Tributes paid to Orthodox educator and expert on Chasidism, who dies aged 75

Ada Rapoport-Albert was known for having developed the world-leading Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at University College London after a career lecturing around the world

By Jewish News Reporter

Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger (Photo credit: Derek Tamea)

June 5, 2019, 6:01 pm

Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger: ‘I hope they bin my book on antisemitism’

We speak to a senior progressive rabbi and peer about her new book on the world's oldest hatred, and why she hopes in 20 years time nobody will need to read it

By Stephen Oryszczuk

From the YIVO archive: Jewish socialists at a picnic around 1902

October 18, 2018, 12:29 pm

Hidden gem of Jewish world comes to London

Jenni Frazer meets the man in charge of a unique archive of ‘just about everything to do with the Jews of Eastern Europe’

By Jenni Frazer

July 30, 2018, 2:23 pm

Jewish leaders react with caution to Supreme Court’s ‘end of life’ ruling

Landmark case raises ethical dilemma as it allows doctors and families to remove food and water from those in vegetative state without permission

January 8, 2018, 5:07 pm

Israeli speaker Hen Mazzig invited back to UCL after violent 2016 protest

University invites ex-IDF soldier as an 'explicit demonstration of its commitment to free speech', while anti-Israel students condemn the move

By Jewish News Reporter

Miko Peled (left) and Azzam Tamimi (right) at UCL in 2017. Both spoke at Labour conference in 2019
Credit: Azzam Tamimi on Twitter

November 15, 2017, 2:52 pm

Anger as anti-Israel speakers tell UCL: ‘Zionists should be treated like Nazis’

Board of Deputies press University College London for hosting anti-Zionist speakers, saying it went “beyond free speech”.

By Jewish News Reporter

August 9, 2017, 3:45 pm

Petition urges Manchester Uni to remove books by Holocaust denier David Irving

More than 3,000 people have called on the university to take the controversial author's material off library shelves

March 10, 2017, 3:15 pm

Arab-Israeli teen rounds on ‘hypocritical’ BDS campaign in UK address

Mohammed Zoabi criticised advocates of the boycott movement against Israel, saying it doesn't help achieve equality or a better life

By Emma Yeomans

Stickers calling for a boycott of Israel

February 23, 2017, 4:18 pm

UCL latest to cancel Israel Apartheid Week events

University College London cancels a Tuesday talk because Friends of Palestine Society 'didn't follow procedure'

By Jewish News Reporter

February 21, 2017, 9:38 am

Parliament to host exhibit on Jews’ 3,500-year-old ties to Holy Land

The House of Commons will run a UNESCO exhibition looking at Jewish links to the land of Israel ahead of the centenary of the Balfour Declaration

By Stephen Oryszczuk

February 7, 2017, 5:28 pm

Holocaust denial leaflets distributed on UK campuses

Students "shocked" after Holocaust denial leaflets are found at British campuses including UCL and Cambridge University.

Sadiq Khan signing the Holocaust Educational Trust's book of commitment, alongside Holocaust survivors Ben Helfgott (left) and Mala Tribich (right)

January 23, 2017, 5:55 pm

Sadiq Khan warns of ‘ripple of trauma’ after spate of anti-Semitic attacks

In a wide-ranging interview, London mayor reassures the community following a series of hate-fuelled incidents, saying 'we’re on their side, we’re here for them'

By Jack Mendel

November 22, 2016, 4:11 pm

Pro-BDS student one of three UJS presidential candidates

The top position will be contested by a supporter of Israeli Apartheid Week and boycotts of the Jewish state

Demonstrators disrupting an event with Israeli speaker at UCL campus.

November 15, 2016, 12:50 pm

Concerns shared with UCL head over anti-Israel protest

Community leaders met with the university Provost to air concerns about 'intimidating ' opposition to an Israeli speaker last month

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