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Students at the encampment at University College London

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

November 1, 2023, 11:46 am

‘Utter disgrace’: UJS condemns university union’s call for a ‘mass uprising’ against Israeli citizens

University College London (UCL) University and College Union (UCU), voted for “Intifada until victory” on Friday 27th October. The union has more than 122,000 members.

By Michelle Rosenberg

October 23, 2023, 9:16 am

Jewish students face group ‘vocalising desire for an intifada against Jewish people’

University College London student tells Jewish News 'the demonstrators were shouting through a megaphone 'Intifada until victory'

By Jenni Frazer

Part of UCL's campus (Credit: Wikipedia Commons. Author: Steve Cadman)

June 7, 2021, 4:02 pm

OPINION: Free speech matters for all at UCL, and so does disruptive thinking

It seems the only time free speech matters to UCL activists is when it comes to the vilification of Israel, writes Harry Markham

By Harry Markham

Some of the abuse sent to students at UCL

May 18, 2021, 10:38 am

UCL investigates death threats to Jewish students

London campus issues statement in the wake of violent threats and Holocaust abuse.

By Jack Mendel

An exhausted staff member at Haifa’s Bnai Zion Medical Center

March 11, 2021, 9:16 am

UK-Israeli study shows one in five health, care workers suffered PTSD last year

Findings from work by UCL and the University of Haifa shows almost 60 percent of workers had a mental health disorder between May and July 2020

By Jewish News Reporter

Proposed design of Westminster Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens

October 6, 2020, 9:08 am

Westminster Shoah memorial would be ‘trophy site’ for terror

Group of 42 academics submit evidence to planning inquiry, as Lord Carlile says the proposed Victoria Tower Gardens monument poses a 'self-evident terrorism risk'

By Tali Fraser

July 10, 2019, 12:14 pm

‘Tension’ between Jewish students of different strands identified in report

184-page study by Theos which examines the 'division and cohesion' in faith societies, claims that there can be friction between Orthodox, Progressive and secular students

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

March 19, 2019, 10:44 am

Terror sympathiser who compared Zionism to Nazism speaking at London uni tonight

University College London's Friends of Palestine Society to welcome Azzam Tamimi, who has publicly exclaimed: “We are all Hamas!”

By Jewish News Reporter

February 12, 2019, 12:39 pm

‘My parents were survivors, his grandfather a Nazi. Our message is the same’

Noemie Lopian, the daughter of two survivors and Derek Niemann, whose grandfather was an SS officer, have joined forces on a UK-wide tour warning students about extremism

By Mathilde Frot

The rubble of a home demolished by the IDF, with a tin shack that a family now has to live in, in Umm al-Khair.

March 5, 2018, 12:31 pm

Jewish students launch campaign against Palestinian home demolitions

'#Don’tSettleForThis' initiative claims Israeli policy 'runs counter to basic Jewish values of justice'

Anti-Israel protesters outside the Hen Mazzig speech

February 1, 2018, 2:07 pm

Israeli activist Hen Mazzig returns to UCL after violent 2016 demo

Former soldier said the university 'didn't want to publicise the event' and called for a more open debate next time

By Jack Mendel

January 10, 2018, 4:41 pm

OPINION – Hen Mazzig: Universities must celebrate rather than silence debate

Israeli writer, speaker and activist says UCL should take appropriate security measures to counteract violent protest rather then attempting to silence it

By Hen Mazzig

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

November 30, 2017, 4:50 pm

Charity funds landmark stem cell trial

An organisation set up in memory of a Jewish woman who died from myeloid leukaemia has funded the UK’s first clinical trial using stem cells from umbilical cord blood to treat blood cancer.

By Alex Davis

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