ANTI-SEMITISM ON CAMPUS

That this House notes the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Anti-Semitism's report, and in particular the section on Anti-Semitism in Higher Education and its five recommendations; welcomes the improved reporting of incidents through the Community Security Trust and the Union of Jewish Students; recognises the recent increase in attacks linked to hostilities in the Middle East, the related incidents that have taken place in universities and reports that January 2009 has the highest number of reported anti-Semitic incidents for any month since records began in 1984; welcomes the Holocaust memorial events that are taking place across campuses, the adoption by the NUS of the EUMC Working Definition on Anti-Semitism and how some institutions have responded when occurrences of anti-Semitism have emerged; believes that more can and should be done by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, further education institutions and the sector as a whole; and therefore calls for more progress on the issue, with greater urgency, and a Government working group on anti-Semitism on campus in order to develop better reporting systems, understanding of the EUMC working definition of anti-Semitism, speaker request processes, guidance on religious observance and timetabling examinations and implementation of the Race Relations Amendment Act.