The UK’s National Union of Students has dismissed its president after an investigation into antisemitism allegations identified “significant breaches” of the organisation’s code of conduct.
Shaima Dallali had been suspended by NUS since the start of her term in office while the disciplinary procedure was carried out and her contract has now been terminated, the organisation said.
Ms Dallali, a former president of the students’ union at City, University of London, was criticised during her election campaign for historic social media posts, sent when she was 18, that referenced a massacre of Jewish people in 628 for which she apologised. In 2018, she had also expressed support for the late cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who had defended the Holocaust.
