SCHOOL pupils should learn about contemporary anti-Jewish prejudice — but Tory ministers must treat the fight against racism as “indivisible” by avoiding xenophobic attacks on asylum-seekers, teachers have demanded. 

The National Education Union (NEU) has urged Downing Street to accept recommendations from its independent adviser on anti-semitism that primaries, secondaries and colleges should devote class time to the growing problem, in addition to Holocaust studies.

But inflammatory language directed against desperate refugees crossing the English Channel in small boats, including Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s warnings of an “invasion,” creates a “hospitable environment for xenophobia and actively obstructs the work of schools in teaching against race hate,” the union said.