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An apartheid wall at Cambridge University. Photo: CU Palestine Society/Facebook.

Anti-Zionism has become a fig leaf for ugly Jew-baiting, a recent graduate of theUniversity of Oxford wrote on Thursday.

In anop-edintheUKs The Telegraph,Richard Black attributed thebarrage of verbal, physical and visual onslaughts against Jewish students to the content and spirit of programs such as those currently takingplace across campuses worldwide as part of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).

Ahead ofevents like IAW whichincludesmock Israelicheckpoints and boycott campaigns Jewish students probably [feel] not at all dissimilar to how Medieval Jews felt when they dreaded the prospect of an irate Mendicant friar expounding on Jewish iniquities in the days leading up to Good Friday, hewrote.

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This week, the UKs Jewish Newsreported, a bishop from the Church of England called IAW neither helpful nor constructive, sayingit has become a source of great tension between Jewish students and others on UK campuses leaving the former feeling intimidated, vulnerable and insecure at a time of rising antisemitismin the UK and beyond.

On Wednesday, as reported by The Algemeiner, in response to concerns raised about IAW, British Prime Minister Theresa May called on her countrysuniversities to investigate and swiftly address campus antisemitism.

Members of leading advocacy groups in the UK recently told The Algemeiner that they were gearing up to proactively counter these events, and the countrys former chief rabbi, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, released an animated video on Monday to arm students with toolsto confront anti-Israeltrends.

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Oxford Alum on 'Israeli Apartheid Week': Campus Anti-Zionism 'Fig Leaf for Ugly Jew-Baiting' - Algemeiner

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