Jonathan Arkush, the president of the Board of Deputies, has said a meeting with Baroness Amos, the director of the School of Oriental and African Studies, was the worst he has ever had with a senior university official.
Mr Arkush met the baroness last Wednesday to discuss her rejection of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance antisemitism definition.
Speaking at a Board meeting on Sunday, he told delegates the talks were “the least satisfactory meeting I have held in eight years with something like 30 vice-chancellors”.
In an appearance on the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme in March, Baroness Amos said she had not adopted the IHRA definition after consulting her own Centre for Jewish Studies department.
