A Jewish student was assaulted with a bat in one of the rising number of anti-Semitic incidents on British campuses, a charity has warned.
The Community Security Trust (CST) said it received 150 reports of anti-Semitic incidents affecting Jewish students, academics, university staff and student bodies across the UK during 2020/21 and 2021/22.
In contrast, there were 123 anti-Semitic incidents at universities reported in the previous two academic years, 2018/19 and 2019/20.
The figures from the CST, which monitors anti-Semitism and supports Jewish people across the UK, come after an independent investigation last week revealed that Jewish students have faced a "hostile" culture and were treated as pariahs within the National Union of Students (NUS) and that it had failed to sufficiently challenge anti-Semitism on campuses.
