Prime Minister backs task force to root out antisemitism in education

During Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons today, Andrew Percy MP (Brigg and Goole, Conservative), chair of the APPG on Antisemitism, said his group had heard from Jewish students who were suffering a record number of antisemitic attacks on university campuses, including allegations of them being marked down by their own professors. Instead of helping students, the NUS had invited a rapper who had engaged in antisemitic conspiracy theories to their conference. 

Boris Johnson said universities had for far too long been tolerant of casual and indeed systematic antisemitism and that was why there was a need for rapid and irreversible change and a task force devoted to rooting out antisemitism in education at all levels.