According to the TAB’s latest news, Fed up students at over half of the unis in the Russell Group are threatening to leave the NUS.

 The online news platform the TAB, spoke to students across the country and found campaigns have been launched at Oxford, Cambridge, Exeter, Nottingham, York and Birmingham, among others. The Tab can reveal students from at least 24 unis are actively pushing for a referendum on their membership with the NUS.

Last night, the new NUS President appeared on Channel 4 News to defend herself against abuse which had lead to death threats and rape threats. She said she didn’t regret delaying the motion on condemning ISIS.

She said: “I don’t regret my actions. The attacks that followed and the total lies that have been published … are totally unfounded. I have always condemned ISIS. I have a problem with Israel violating international law. Israel as it behaves is problematic to me. It’s not for me to condemn Palestinian violence.”

She said she received “racialised and sexist” abuse for being a Muslim woman. “It’s been very very difficult, it’s incredible to see the overwhelming support but difficult as my parents have been harassed by media and they’ve had to see the rape threats and death threats. They left Algeria to protect us and ensure we thrive and succeed only to be met with this once we do reach those positions of success.”

Malia agreed she was comfortable being called anti-Zionist.

The 24 universities with campaigns to disaffiliate: Aberystwyth, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Exeter, Hull, King’s College London, Leicester, Lincoln, Loughborough, LSE, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Reading, Royal Holloway, Sheffield, Stirling, Trent, UCLan, UWE and York.