Antisemitism Exposed

Jewish student says campus antisemitism and London arson attacks show Britain is failing its Jewish community

Author says great-grandmother Lily Ebert, an Auschwitz survivor, was horrified by rising UK antisemitism before her death

By Dov Forman Fox News

Published April 22, 2026 7:00am EDT

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Being a Jewish student in Britain today means living a kind of double life. I go to lectures. I take exams. I navigate seminar rooms and library queues like any other student. But unlike most of my peers, I do all of this while calculating: am I in danger because my Star of David or Kippah (Skull cap) is visible? Will speaking up in this discussion make me a target? Is today the day they'll be a demonstration outside?

Going to university is supposed to be a student’s main job. Right now, for many British Jewish students, it feels like a side gig — squeezed in around the exhausting, full-time business of simply being Jewish on campus.

My great-grandmother was Lily Ebert. She arrived at Auschwitz at just 20 years old. In a single day, her mother, her younger sister, her youngest brother and over one hundred members of her extended family were murdered — gassed and cremated, their ashes scattered with no grave, no place to mourn. That was July 1944.

THIS PASSOVER, NO MORE WAITING: A CALL FOR STRENGTH, UNITY AND THE UNAPOLOGETIC DEFENSE OF JEWISH LIFE

Members of the Jewish community comfort each other near to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025 after Police reported that two people were killed and three others were seriously injured in a synagogue attack in northern England. (Peter Byrne/PA)

She survived. She came to Britain to rebuild her life, and she did more than survive; she thrived. She built a large and loving family: ten grandchildren, thirty-eight great-grandchildren........

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