Shock at Death of 'Peace Champion'
Mr Senitt was tipped for a high-flying career. Describing their devastation at the loss of their son, stabbed to death in the US, Alan Senitt's family said the world had lost a champion of peace. "We have lost a much-loved son and brother.
"The Jewish community as a whole has lost one of its bright young leaders and the wider world has lost a champion of peace and goodwill," a statement read.
"We will leave it to others to describe all that Alan had achieved in his short life." And since the news of his death, tributes have been paid to the Birmingham University graduate from many Jewish groups, describing a passionate campaigner.
The 27-year-old had only recently left north London for Washington DC to embark on the next step of what should have been a high-flying political career.
Three assailants who cut the throat of an aspiring politician from Britain killed him and tried to rape his female companion early yesterday in the driveway of a Georgetown mansion, police reported, after the couple had returned from a night at the movies.
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Londoner Alan Senitt, 23, chairman of the Union of Jewish Students in Great Britain, said students have reported "a lot of problems on campus," including physical attacks and bricks thrown through their windows. On one campus, "the General Union of Palestinian Students handed out a statement claiming to be from Benjamin Franklin saying that Jews are vampires and suck the blood of any community they move into," said Senitt, who presented the information to several E.U. Parliament members a day before the demonstration. "It was a Nazi forgery from 1942 or 1943."