But while Lancaster’s abhorrence of Holocaust denial literature is certainly justified, the suggestion that libraries should in any way restrict access to distasteful books forgets the meaning of a real university education. Universities, by nature, are supposed to be institutions where the UK’s brightest and sharpest have an opportunity to grapple with controversial and unsettling ideas – such as, yes, Holocaust denial. Universities are not required to support the books contained in their libraries, but instead support the notion that its contents should be challenged.

Today fear about the anti-Semitic conditions faced by Jewish students is widespread. Five months ago, Baroness Deech warned that Jewish students encounter such a toxic atmosphere that many of the UK’s leading universities are "no-go areas" for Jews. And according to a recent NUS study, around a quarter of Jewish students are worried about the possibility of being attacked on campus for their religious beliefs – presumably by the NUS’s President Malia Bouattia, who has made her own Livingstone-esque comments about Zionism in the past.