UK students leave Israel off list of terror victim countries

The British Jewish Students union calls for an apology after the National Union of Students omits Israel from a list of countries that have suffered terror attacks in the last year.

Earlier in the day, NUS president Megan Dunn named France, Nigeria, Lebanon, Turkey, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Kenya, Palestine, and Mali as countries where civilians had been murdered in attacks by “paramilitary organisations,” according to the Jewish Chronicle.

“The inclusion in the list of Palestine and the deliberate omission of Israel is an insult to the victims of terror there in the last few months. The very fact that the civilians who have been stabbed, run over or shot in the streets are not even included in this statement is cause for concern,” the Union of Jewish Students says in a statement.

In June, the NUS, which represents all British university students, voted to join the BDS movement and boycott Israel. In October, the group’s leadership was criticized for failing to condemn the Islamic State.