Birmingham University falls to zionism

Brum campus victory

By Gaby Wine
Jewish Chronicle
May 17, 2002

The STUDENT council at Birmingham’s University of Central England have voted in favour of a motion banning anti-Israel literature on campus.

One of its proposers, Ian Wasserman, commented: “There has been quite a lot of anti-Israel material handed out by Socialist students. When they are confronted, their favourite argument is that they don’t have a problem with Jews, but with Zionism. We wanted to show that you can’t differentiate.”

The council decision was welcomed by Union of Jewish Students campaigns co-ordinator Clive Gabay.

“It is an encouraging sign that people are standing by Jewish students,” he said, “especially because in the past, UCE has been the scene of anti-Israel activity.”