The communities secretary accused encampments at British universities of being “alive with anti-Israel rhetoric and agitation” that was “deeply, profoundly intimidatory to Jewish students and others”.
“Yet again telling Jewish students that they are not welcome unless they deny their own identity,” Gove said. “Antisemitism repurposed for the Instagram age.” He endorsed a recommendation by the Walney review on political violence and disruption, which is being published on Tuesday by former Labour MP John Woodcock, that the organisers of those marches should contribute to the cost of policing them.
He concluded: “We must not be silent. We must not let tolerance for different views become a moral relativism that refuses to defend the democratic principles and traditions we cherish in this country. “Some of those who are most intent on dividing Muslims are the people who attempt to weaponise antisemitism,” he said.