“I don’t want to sing war songs, which is what the entertainers think we want. I don’t want to sit around singing The White Cliffs Of Dover,” says Keith Herdman. “Unfortunately, the entertainers who come in think we’re all old idiots and just want to do that. But I don’t want to do that.”
Try a little thought experiment. Imagine that, instead of protesting against Israel, student demonstrators were demanding a crackdown on immigration. Suppose that, in place of Palestinian flags, they were waving St George’s Crosses. How do you think the university authorities would respond?
Susan Hall has said Wes Streeting of Labour “put me in danger” by claiming that a victory for Ms Hall in the London mayoral election would be a “win for racists, white supremacists and Islamophobes”.