Edinburgh – A poster was found
today in King’s Buildings that suggests that the Holocaust was “sheer fraud”
and “the greatest swindle of all time.”
The poster, spotted by
EUSA Vice President for Academic Affairs Imogen Wilson, also contains a link to
a bizarre engineering website that contains Holocaust conspiracy theories.
Jewish student Noa
Cohen, who is also the Vice Chair of the Israeli Engagement Society, said:
“This appalling poster clearly demonstrates that anti-semitism is a problem at
Edinburgh and it is time for EUSA and university management to take the concerns
we have brought for months seriously.
“We are at a tipping
point where bigotry is manifesting itself even more blatantly than before, and
this makes me worry for the safety of myself and other Jewish students. The
perpetrator must be found and subjected to disciplinary action as soon as
possible, as they have no place on our campus.”
The poster has
surfaced on the same day that Malia Bouattia was elected NUS President. She has
faced allegations of anti-semitism for previously labelling the University of
Birmingham a “Zionist outpost”.
EUSA President Jonny
Ross-Tatam said: “It’s shocking that this antisemitic poster was found on our
university campus. It is completely unacceptable and extremely concerning.
“We all have the responsibility now, our
Students’ Union, University, every single one of us, to call out any antisemitism
and discrimination of any kind, when we see it.”
