Freedom of Speech and the IHRA in Universities

Submission by Free Speech on Israel
to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights’
Inquiry into Freedom of Expression

  1. Free Speech on Israel is a Jewish-led group formed in April 2016 out of concerns that the surge in accusations of antisemitism in British public life inno way reflected the reality in which we live.
Evidence to 2018 Inquiry
  1. Free Speech on Israel (FSOI) gave oral and written evidence to the Joint Committee’s 2018 inquiry into Freedom of Speech in Universities. In the current submission we will concentrate only on the question: How has the situation changed in universities in the two years since the Committee’s report on the issue?
  2. Our evidence in 2018 focussed on the negative effects of the governmental adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism on freedom of expression in universities as a microcosm of its broader impact. Continue reading “Freedom of Speech and the IHRA in Universities”

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