The Jewish daughter of Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said she feels unsafe at her university following protests in the wake of October 7.
Tabytha Shapps, a second-year studying politics and economics at the University of Leeds told the Telegraph that she chose to drop a module about Israel after peers in the class described the country as an “apartheid state.”
She said that her classmates were “talking about Israeli apartheid and Israel’s agenda as a genocidal state”, adding: “As the only Jew in the class… I’m sat there and I’m thinking, what about the injustices of the 1,200 Israelis killed on Oct 7?”
Shapps also said that an anti-Israel protest on campus at the end of November made her feel unsafe after the march “quickly escalated into anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist chants”.
