Higher Education: Antisemitism

(asked on 3rd July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and which higher education institutions have adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism.


Answered by
Chris Skidmore Portrait
Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 10th July 2019

On 16 May 2019, I wrote to all higher education institutions to urge them to consider adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. I set out my view that this is a useful tool, which will help front-line services better understand and recognise instances of antisemitism.

The government believes that adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism sends a clear message that antisemitic behaviour will not be tolerated, and that any instances of antisemitism will be taken very seriously.

Higher education providers are autonomous organisations who are independent from the government and individually responsible for deciding whether to adopt the IHRA definition and this information is therefore not held centrally.

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