As pressure mounts on universities to adopt the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism, below is a snapshot list of individuals and institutions who have warned against its use in any kind of formal code... And still journalists frame it as ‘universal’ and ‘consensual’:
Kenneth Stern – Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate and the chief drafter of the original IHRA definition who said in 2019 it “was never intended to be a campus hate speech code”
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
Stephen Sedley – former appeal court judge
David Feldman – Director of Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Geoffrey Robertson QC
Hugh Tomlinson QC...
Stephen Sedley – former appeal court judge
David Feldman – Director of Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Geoffrey Robertson QC
Hugh Tomlinson QC...
Anthony Lerman – former director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research
Dozens of Jewish organisations from around the world who signed an open letter in 2018 condemning the IHRA definition
Dozens of BAME and other minority groups from across the UK
Dozens of Jewish organisations from around the world who signed an open letter in 2018 condemning the IHRA definition
Dozens of BAME and other minority groups from across the UK
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