Board of Deputies president Jonathan Arkush has urged Jewish students to “shun LSE and study elsewhere” after claims that Jewish students were abused at a public lecture on the Middle East conflict.
Complaints were made following a clash between the students and anti-Israel musician Gilad Atzmon.
The incident happened at a talk given by Richard Falk, a former UN rapporteur to the Palestinian territories, at LSE’s central London campus on Monday. The LSE has said it will investigate.
Mr Atzmon, who has described himself as “a self-hating Jew”, was in the audience when he confronted a group of students, telling them that Jews had been “expelled from Germany for misbehaving”, and recommending that they read the work of David Irving, the disgraced historian and Holocaust denier.
In a separate incident, a pro-Palestinian activist allegedly shouted abuse and attempted to approach the students but was restrained. One of the group told the JC: “He turned around and started shouting abuse and tried to assault my friend”.
