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Bridging Hatred: How Two Forms of Antisemitism Converge on College Campuses
City, University Of London. Photo: Wiki Commons.
Another morning, another flood of emails. Lately, my university inbox has become more than just a stream of class updates and administrative notices — now even this simplest of tasks has been hijacked by antisemitism.
Statements from the Student Union condemning Israel’s “Genocide,” “Educide,” “Domicide,” and a list of other bogus terms pile up on my inbox screen — one after another.
And even though I delete the emails, antisemitism follows me in every hallway (filled with anti-Israel posters) and cubicles filled with antisemitic stickers. It is completely inescapable.
This phenomenon reminds me of something Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks once said, when he compared antisemitism to a “virus” that has “survived over time by mutating.”
Beyond that, antisemitism has permeated groups you’d never expect to withstand being in the same room, let alone aligned in a common cause, with each other. The surprising nature of the spread of antisemitism between the far left and Islamist groups, has been called the “Red-Green Alliance.”
This alliance is simply proof that sometimes the enemy of my enemy is — still just an enemy. However, the current resurgence of the latest variant of antisemitism — created in the wake of October 7th — has clearly found fertile ground in Western schools and academic institutions.
According to CAMERA, an organization set up to fight anti-Israel narratives and disinformation, the roots of this deranged ideology begin in a very expected place: Nazi Germany, which spent an enormous amount of resources into spreading antisemitism internationally.
With the eventual disappearance of the Nazi regime in Germany, the mantle of exporting antisemitism has now been picked up by (among others) authoritarian regimes globally. The Soviet Union, for instance, worked closely through Uganda’s Idi Amin to encourage Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat to rephrase his endless waves of terrorism against Israeli civilians as acts of heroism, part of a necessary “liberation movement.”
In time, these propagandistic slogans developed intellectual roots as revolutionaries in Iran, notably Ali Shirati, pioneered a synthesis, combining Marxism’s oppressor/oppressed paradigm with a political interpretation of Shiite Islam. This positioned Islam as uniquely responsible for championing the marginalized.
Unsurprisingly, Iran has developed into one of the most major exporters of this “New Antisemitism” — funding a web of initiatives aimed to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist and dehumanize its people.
The influence of these Islamic regimes extends across Europe and North America, deeply embedding itself within Western academic institutions. This phenomenon has received far less attention compared to the coverage of China’s Confucius Institutes on campuses, despite Qatari and Iranian interests exerting a much greater financial and ideological impact.
A groundbreaking 2008 report revealed the scale of this influence, when research uncovered that Islamist regimes had injected $462 million into just eight leading UK institutions, including prestigious universities like Oxford and Cambridge. Subsequent investigations have painted an even more alarming picture, with reports suggesting that Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood have secretly channeled over $13 billion into American universities between 2001 and 2021.
The consequences of this influence is not so surprising. British academics have increasingly demonstrated a lack of moral clarity on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Some of this their Marxist roots, where other efforts could be attributed to foreign funding. And when they support terrorist groups on college campuses, they often go without consequences. Their “oppressor vs. oppressed” ideology makes them sympathetic to terrorism.
Many students have followed the lead of these teachers, with anti-Israel protests on UK universities becoming a near daily occurrence — costing UK universities at least £1 million in management already, and spreading hate to new generations of students and the general population.
And sadly, the impact of this rise of a new antisemitism has resulted in Jewish students fearful of expressing their Jewish identity on campus, with figures showing as many as 70% of Jewish students actively concealing their Jewish identity in UK universities.
As for me and the flood of hate in my email inbox, my problem won’t be resolved until we start to tackle antisemitism within our universities, and our media institutions seriously and denormalize this spreading hatred.
Isaac Grand is Masters Student in Law at City, University of London, and a CAMERA on Campus Fellow.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.