Timeline of trouble for students

FEBRUARY 2016: Alex Chalmers, co-chairman of Oxford University Labour Club, quit claiming many members of both OULC and the student Left ‘have some kind of problem with Jews’.

OCTOBER 2016: 100 antiIsrael protesters tried to barge in on an event at University College London featuring a talk by Israeli activist Hen Mazzig.

FEBRUARY 2018: Sixty students tried to stop a talk at the King’s College Israel Society by former Israeli deputy PM Dan Meridor.

FEBRUARY 2019: A bid to create a Jewish Society at Essex University was voted down by 200 people. Officials declared the vote void.