Universities Minister Fears ‘Ghettoisation’ of Jewish Students

The universities minister is concerned that “ghettoisation” is occurring on campuses, in which Jewish students feel unable to enjoy themselves at university. Robert Halfon MP made the remarks during a meeting of the House of Commons Education Committee on Tuesday, calling it a “major problem” across higher education in the UK. “I think it is a major problem across our universities. I fear that there is ghettoisation going on, with Jewish students unable to do what they should be doing, which is having the best time of their life at university,” the minister for skills, apprenticeships, and higher education said. Mr. Halfon explained that the increase in anti-Semitism on campus was not new, saying that anti-Jewish hatred had been rising across British universities long before Hamas’s terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. But he said that incidents had spiked since then....