Student encampments have been set up at more than a dozen universities in the UK against the war in Gaza, including Cambridge and Oxford.
The prime minister has met with university vice-chancellors and a Jewish student union in a bid to de-escalate tensions on UK campuses, amid growing numbers of student protests in support of Gaza.
At a roundtable meeting conducted by Rishi Sunak in Downing Street this morning, the prime minister told vice-chancellors from leading UK universities he expected them to take a zero-tolerance approach to antisemitic incidents and to take responsibility for protecting Jewish students. Ms Keegan earlier hit out at the "unreasonable demands" of some pro-Palestinian protesters and said "we want to make it clear Jewish students and staff need to feel safe on campuses."
“We are seeing language emanating from these encampments and protest movements such as calls to globalise the intifada,” he said, adding: “These are not meaningless political statements, these are direct calls for violence.”“I am confident that vice-chancellors have heard the message loud and clear today that antisemitism has no place on campus, and I look forward to seeing their decisive action following this meeting,” he said.
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