Universities should have their funding cut if they fail to protect students from minority backgrounds, the Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested.
The Most Rev Justin Welby made the comments amid a series of free speech rows on campuses.
He said there is no right not to be offended, but “everyone has the right not to be abused”.
Speaking at a Board of Deputies of British Jews event at the Bevis Marks synagogue in central London, he said he is in favour of a “carrot and stick” approach in protecting minorities.
The archbishop said there should be “serious consequences” for the funding, authority and recognition of universities which fail to protect students from minority backgrounds.
Vice-chancellors should be rewarded when they protect students, he added.
Mr Welby said: “No-one is entitled not to be offended – but everyone has the right not to be abused.”
He also reiterated his personal commitment to tackling antisemitism, telling the event the Church “unquestionably has a disgusting, shameful and horrendous history with the Jewish people in the early Middle Ages”.
