CFI Parliamentary Chairman Rt. Hon. The Lord Pickles said it was “a matter of pride” that the United Kingdom was the first country to adopt the IHRA definition, in a webinar alongside officials from the United States, the United Nation (UN) and Germany.
In the online event, organised by the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM), officials called forfor greater adoption of the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, describing it as a critical tool to combat anti-Jewish hatred.
Lord Pickles said: “We know from surveys that maybe 30 percent of the [U.K.] population … believe some of the tropes about Jews controlling the press or about Jews having a lot of money. He underlined: “We really need to bear down on this antisemitism. That is why the IHRA definition is so important because it deals with the modern nature of antisemitism”.
Watch the webinar in full here.
