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1/ One final thought. Adopting a definition of antisemitism for disciplinaries is necessary but insufficient to deal with an *institutional* problem. To address that you have to change culture from top to bottom and that takes sensitivity, education and perhaps structural change
2/ The #DefyIHRA hashtag is, to me, a kind of childlike defiance and that probably isn’t a coincidence. If you approach a problem from a perspective, only, of punishment then you risk infantalising and *lawyerising* the issue. Ultimately, as with any institution, change has to...
3/ ... come from the bottom up but also the top down. It’s so hard. I sat through a year of the mid staffs inquiry into the failure of the NHS systems to prevent 100s of unnecessary deaths and untold suffering in a hospital. The problem was institutional culture.
I have just spent 2 minutes scrolling the #defyIHRA hashtag and have found not a single tweet which would be antisemitism, in the context, under the IHRA. What an ignorant and ugly outpouring by people who plainly don’t have a clue about what they think they are defying
If people spent their time reading up on the definition and listening to Jewish people (rather than accusing them of smears and falling down their student politics rabbit hole) they would know that themselves as it has plenty of room for fierce criticism of Israel and context
I am sorry if this is slightly more angry than my usual style but it makes me mad that people are treating Jews as if they are liars and exaggerators more deserving of childish trolling than empathy.
