Sunak urges university leaders to protect Jewish students on campus
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will tell university leaders on Thursday to do more to combat anti-Semitism on university campuses, in a sign of growing dissatisfaction within the government over the recent growth of encampments set up by students protesting against the war in Gaza .Vice-chancellors of some of Britain's top universities have been invited to Downing Street to discuss "the escalation of anti-Semitic abuse against Jewish students in the UK", Sunak's office said in a statement released ahead of the meeting.Britain has so far not seen the kind of riots witnessed on American campuses. But small-scale, largely peaceful protest encampments have recently sprung up around several universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Newcastle, Leeds and Manchester.“Universities sho...