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‘Labour must recognise the diversity of the Jewish community, and not allow a political faction to silence other points of view’
PROFESSOR REBECCA RUTH GOULD tells the Star about her academic research on the IHRA definition of anti-semitism

LAST month Professor Rebecca Ruth Gould from the University of Birmingham published an article titled Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism as a Case Study in Censored Speech in the peer-reviewed academic journal Law, Culture and the Humanities — “the first extended scholarly treatment of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s new definition of anti-semitism.”

Ian Sinclair: The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland has referred to “Labour’s failure to adopt the full text of the near universally accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism.” Does this characterisation concur with your research?

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