Antisemitism Resources
Explore the research shaping the conversation around antisemitism in higher education. Our resources include reports, policy papers, journal articles, toolkits and guidance produced by the ICPG and its contributors. Together, they provide evidence-based insights, practical recommendations and independent academic analysis to help universities, policymakers and researchers better understand the challenges facing Jewish students and staff, and how they can be addressed.
Contents:
Addressing Antisemitism in Universities:
Toolkit
Toolkit
Learn how to implement policies and procedures to create a safe environment in your university.
Policies against antisemitism and provision for Jewish students and staff at UK universities
Policy Brief
This policy brief is intended to summarise key recommendations and best practice as found in the above analysis. The next phase of the study is intended to produce a certification tool for combatting antisemitism across UK universities. For further information, please contact icpg@icpg.org.uk.
Summary of Findings
This report summarises a study of current policies regarding antisemitism at a sample of 50 UK universities. It was written on behalf of ICPG by Dr Claire Burchett under the direction of Professors Rosa Freedman and Laura Vaughan. If you would like a copy of the full research report, please contact icpg@icpg.org.uk
Antisemitism on Campus:
Protecting Free Speech, Preventing Discrimination
Key Issues Brief
This work sets out the approach of the ICPG to the question of free speech on university campuses and, in particular, speech concerning Jews, Israel, Zionism and the Middle East Conflict.
Full Report
Key issues brief by Professor Rosa Freedman and full report by Dr Matthew Bolton. A project of the ICPG Free Speech and Academic Freedom Working Group.
Journal Article
“Academic Freedom and Antisemitism in UK Universities” by Matthew Bolton, Rosa Freedman and John Hyman, JUSTICE 73 (Winter 2025) pp 61-70
Feature Article
“Departmental Orthodoxies Silence Dissent and Chill Scholarly Enquiry” by John Hyman in Times Higher Education.
"No Zios on Campus":
UK Universities Since October 7
Journal Article
An article by Professor Rosa Freedman published in Justice 76 (Winter 2026) pp. 31-37 and offers an analysis of how the discourse around Israel and antisemitism has taken hold of academic institutions, turning campuses into unsafe spaces for Jewish students, and a hotbed of antisemitism.
ICPG Response to OfS Guidance
Policy Paper
This policy paper is the ICPG’s response to the Office for Students’ guidance on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (HEFoSA).
Report
The policy paper followed is based on a longer report written by Dr. Matt Bolton on behalf of ICPG. Both papers specifically focus on the parts of the OfS guidance that relate to antisemitism.
"I have never felt less protected as a Jew":
Antisemitism at UK Universities since 7th October 2023
Report
The report was written on behalf of ICPG by Professor Rosa Freedman and Professor Laura Vaughan, using a survey designed by Professor Leslie Gutman.
It offers a summary of our research about students’ experiences of antisemitism at UK universities since the 7th October attacks, aimed at understanding and documenting problems on and off campus and proposing evidence-based solutions to address them.
It offers a summary of our research about students’ experiences of antisemitism at UK universities since the 7th October attacks, aimed at understanding and documenting problems on and off campus and proposing evidence-based solutions to address them.
Op-ed
“One year on from 7 October, it is time for universities to act on antisemitism” by Professor Rosa Freedman and Odeliya Lanir Zafir in Times Higher Education.
Best Practices for Freshers' Week
Recommendations
By the ICPG’s Standards and Interventions Working Group, August 2024
Antisemitism Today
Lecture Text
The full text of a lecture delivered by Professor Anthony Julius, Chair of the ICPG, at the LSE Law School. Published in the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism.
Video Recording
The lecture asks: (1) Did antisemitism change on 7 October? (2) Do the distinctions drawn between ‘antisemitism’ and ‘antizionism’ still address anything real? (3) How should English Jews now lead their lives, given today’s antisemitism?
Willed Ignorance:
Reflections on academic free speech, occasioned by the David Miller case
Article
By Professor Anthony Julius, Chair of the ICPG. Published in Current Legal Problems, Volume 75, Issue 1, 2022, Pages 1-44.
Israel and the United Nations:
Understanding the Responses to October 7th
Article
By Professor Rosa Freedman, President of ICPG. Published in the Hoover’s Working Paper Series, prepared for the Hoover’s Applied History Working Group’s annual History Symposium, themed “Anti-Semitism: Past and Present.” held on 11 February 2025.
COMING CLEAN:
The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left
Anti-Zionism as ‘protected belief’:
The case of David Miller
Article
A paper by Matthew Bolton, to be published in the Industrial Law Journal that explores the impact of the legal category of ‘protected philosophical belief’, as it was used in the David Miller case.