Bahar Mustafa could lose her job (Picture: Facebook)

Students at Goldsmiths University have started a campaign to sack the institution’s diversity officer over allegations she used the hashtag ‘kill all white men’ from an official Twitter account.

Bahar Mustafa, the university’s welfare and diversity officer, previously came under fire after banning white people and men from an event that aimed to focus on diversifying the curriculum.

She was even recorded on camera defending her views, and said ethnic minority women couldn’t be racist as they ‘do not stand to gain’.

But now, students have started a petition to remove Mustafa from her job, and a change.org entry has garnered 2,700 signatures so far.




‘The current welfare and diversity officer has used hate speech based on race and gender,’ the petition reads.

‘For example, the consistent use of hashtags such as #Killallwhitemen and #misandry, and publicly calling someone ‘white trash’ under the official GSU Welfare and Diversity Officer Twitter account.’

Bahar Mustafa previously used the phrase ‘white trash’ (Picture: Twitter/SWNS)

The Twitter account has since been taken down, and Ms Mustafa has admitted that her use of the term ‘white trash’ was ‘not professional’.

But she has defended the use of the controversial hashtag, and referred to it as ‘in-jokes and ways that many people in the queer feminist community express ourselves’.

‘It’s a way of reclaiming the power from the trauma many of us experience as queers, women, people of colour, who are on the receiving end of racism, misogyny and homophobia daily’, she said.

If the petition is signed by three percent of students’ union members, a vote of no confidence will be held for Ms Mustafa’s position, and she will lose her job if two thirds of voters in that ballot decided to go against her.

In response to the petition calling for her to be sacked, an open letter of solidarity has since been started on Change.org as well. It has 1,300 signatories so far.