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Change UK adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism

Troubled new party says rise in Jew-hate makes it 'incumbent on politicians of all persuasions to be unequivocal and uncompromising in our opposition to it'

June 19, 2019 17:13
Former Tory MP turned Change UK leader Anna Soubry
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Troubled new political party Change UK has adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism, saying the rise in Jew-hate "makes it incumbent on politicians of all persuasions to be unequivocal and uncompromising in our opposition to it".

The party has been reduced to five MPs after six of the founders - including Luciana Berger - left within weeks of the party being set up in February after disappointing results in May's European Parliament elections.

Ms Berger quit Labour that month over the antisemitic bullying she had faced since the party came under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

The party was engulfed in a huge row with the Jewish community last summer over the IHRA definition, which it initially refused to adopt in full because of examples it gave of how criticising Israel can be antisemitic.

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