Reacting to the news that the Labour Party have not adopted the full IHRA definition of antisemitism, Karen Pollock MBE, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said:
“This definition of antisemitism has been adopted by the police, the crown prosecution service, local authorities and 31 national governments - ours included. It is also the accepted definition by the mainstream Jewish community.
Why therefore does a mainstream political party tarnished with three years of antisemitic incident after incident feel they know better?
Simply, if the fight to eradicate antisemitism is to be taken seriously, then the IHRA definition should be adopted by the Labour Party in its entirety.”