Shameless university students nationwide are set to stage a series of ‘sickening’ pro-Palestine protests on the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.  

Rallies are set to take place on Tuesday on the two-year anniversary of the terror atrocity, which saw almost 1,300 people slaughtered by marauding extremists. 

The onslaught, which also led to Hamas thugs kidnapping a number of hostages and dragging the bodies of dead Israelis through the streets while Palestinian crowds cheered, sparked the war in Gaza. 

Now, thousands of British students are gearing up to march on university campuses as part of series of ‘resistance’ rallies.

It comes after more than 500 people were arrested in London for allegedly expressing support for the banned terror group, Palestine Action, over the weekend. 

And on Thursday, hundreds of other activists held protests in London and Manchester – just hours after the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue terror attack rocked the nation’s Jewish community.

Britain’s Jewish leaders, as well as university chiefs and senior politicians, have now voiced their repulsion at the timing of tomorrow’s planned demonstrations.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews said it was ‘disgusted by reports of recent hate-filled protests on university campuses’.

‘In the wake of the terror attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation it is clear we need fundamental change of mindset to drive out anti-Jewish incitement at all levels of our society, including from our universities,’ a spokesman added. 

Keith Black, chairman of Jewish Leadership Council, was also sickened by the scheduled events on the anniversary of Hamas’s massacre in Israel. 

‘Protesting on campuses on October 7 is a disgraceful and deeply upsetting strategy to cause maximum pain to Jewish students,’ Mr Black said.

‘The content of these demonstrations is likely to be anti-Semitic and incite violence. For those involved to claim any kind of moral authority is a lie, these protests are driven by hate.’

At Queen Mary University in London, organisers are planning a rally dubbed: ‘Two Years of Genocide, Two Years of Resistance’.

Students at Goldsmiths, University of London, are also gearing up for an event, advertised as a ‘night of remembrance and resistance’. 

At nearby King’s College in London, students have been invited to a talk entitled: ‘Why It Didn’t Start On October 7th’.

While in Strathclyde University in Glasgow, students are urged to ‘grab your flag and keffiyeh’ and attend a ‘Protest 4 Palestine’.

‘Wear your keffiyeh, bring your voice, and join us as we demand divestment from Israel and justice for Palestine,’ one post advertising the rally on Facebook said.

It later adds ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ – a chant critics have branded anti-Semitic, because it implies the destruction of the state of Israel. 

In Birmingham, protesters will stage a vigil for Palestine to ‘honour our martyrs’, with posts for the event saying: ‘Two years of genocide, 100-years of resistance’.

Meanwhile, at the University of Sheffield, the Revolutionary Communist Party refused pleas to move the date of its march, citing the cost of having to reprint posters.

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has demanded any student caught attending such rallies should be ‘kicked off their courses’ with immediate effect. 

‘University chancellors need to stamp out the virulently anti-Jewish hatred running amok on their campuses,’ the Conservative MP added. 

‘These groups are showing their true colours by holding rallies celebrating their heroes in Hamas two years on from the sickening murder of 1,200 people in what was the worst single massacre of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust.

‘Any student attending ought to be kicked off their courses.’

Baroness Deech, a former Principal of St Anne’s College, Oxford, also expressed her anger at the planned marches.

‘As a new academic year begins at British universities, it is painfully clear that authorities have failed to tackle extremist events and ideology on campus,’ she said.

‘Not only are multiple pro-Palestinian events insensitively scheduled on the two year anniversary of Hamas’s heinous terror rampage, but their promotional materials talk of “fighting”, “resistance” and even “dismantling” Israel.

‘The tragic events in Manchester have shown us what can happen when such hateful, violent rhetoric is normalised and it is now incumbent on university leaders to enforce a zero-tolerance policy to ensure the safety of its frightened Jewish students.’

Isaac Zarfati, executive director of StandWithUs UK, said Jewish students have been subjected to ‘vile’ levels of ‘Jew hate, intimidation, ostracisation, and even violent assault’ over the past two years. 

Mr Zarfati warned a recent report conducted by StandWithUS UK, showed Jewish students in Britain now faced ‘terrifying levels of racism… day in, day out and it shows no sign of abating even following the terrible events in Manchester’.

‘The deliberate scheduling of “resistance” events on the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 terror atrocities is particularly grotesque,’ he added.

He called on the Prime Minister and education secretary to ‘get a grip of rampant anti-Semitism and extremism’ now seemingly raging across university campuses.  

Louis Danker, president of the Union of Jewish Students, said he respected free speech and the right to protest. 

However, Mr Danker said on October 7, many Jewish students would be seeking ‘to mourn their loved ones murdered in southern Israel’, and pleaded for rallies to be held on another date.

He added: ‘Marking “two years of resistance” on October 7 echoes the explicit justification and glorification of the Hamas terrorist attacks on campus witnessed over the last two years.

‘No Jewish student should have to stand by as others glorify a day that marks such loss for our community.

‘We have written to Vice Chancellors and university leaders to remind them of their obligation to stand against the glorification of terror.’