[IsraelTimes] Goldsmiths, a college in the University of London, has apologized to its Jewish students and staff for allowing a “culture” of antisemitism to build up on its campus over recent years.
Following an independent inquiry commissioned by the school’s governing council, it will now work to implement a two-year action plan to tackle the problem, the school says.
“The inquiry sets out a disturbing picture, and I am sorry that our community and culture fell short of the behaviors we expect,” says the school’s Vice-Chancellor Frances Corner.
The report laid out a set of 17 recommendations to be implemented by 2027 that will improve support services for students, upgrade reporting and tracking mechanisms, and rethink staff training, the school says.
Antisemitism has spiked in the UK and around the world since Hamas launched its war against Israel on October 7, 2023. A report presented by StandWithUs UK to the UK Parliament’s House of Lords in May showed that Jewish university students across Great Britain are facing unprecedented levels of antisemitism, with many reporting being attacked, threatened and intimidated on campus.
In 2022, Goldsmiths said it would investigate allegations of antisemitism after a Jewish professor, David Hirsh, was publicly attacked as a “far right white supremacist” and a “Zionist Goldsmiths academic.” 
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