London – More than four out of every 10 Jewish students at British universities reported witnessing or experiencing antisemitic incidents between October 2010 and this March.
But only two in 10 said they were concerned about campus antisemitism.
Those were two of the findings in a newly released survey of Jewish students in Britain that showed respondents generally comfortable with their religious identity and relatively unconcerned about anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity on campus.
The National Jewish Student Survey, conducted by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research and released in September, is the first-ever study examining Jewish campus life in Britain. It was commissioned by the Pears Foundation and the Union of Jewish Students, the umbrella group that oversees Jewish societies at more than 100 British universities — essentially the British equivalent of Hillel houses.
The survey, which drew more than 900 respondents from nearly 100 institutions and was conducted in February and March, provides a comprehensive look at the demographics of the so-called millennial generation, young people who came of age in a Britain focused on Jewish continuity and youth involvement to an unprecedented degree.
