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Warwick University adopts IHRA after being accused of ‘intransigence’ over definition

Vice chancellor Stuart Croft announced the decision after JSoc co-presidents wrote that the university had been ‘adamant to stonewall us’

October 27, 2020 12:23
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Warwick University has said it will adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, after the university's Jewish-Israeli Society accused the Vice Chancellor of “intransigence”.

In a letter to Prof Stuart Croft, JSoc presidents Toby Kunin and Yuval Ben-Arzi claimed that the university had not responded since February and was “adamant to stonewall us.”  

“We learned from the University’s Director of Press and Media Relations last week that the University is demanding that these discussions be resumed ‘face-to-face’, an inherently unreasonable ask,” they claimed. 

The letter also referred to a recent demand by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson that universities adopt the definition by the end of the year.