Member

On harassment, alarm and distress, I have been doing a lot of work with university students, and I can assure your Lordships that in universities there is a huge amount of harassment, alarm and distress being caused, particularly in relation to, for example, pro-Palestinian activists disrupting lectures and threatening lecturers, and where we have a kind of explicit Jew hatred on campus. Everybody says, “Well, what can we do?” Well, you could issue them a respect order, but even I do not think that that is the way that we should deal with it. The point is that we are using these things, it seems to me, as an abdication of responsibility for acting by basically creating another legislative tool.