“UK government facing legal challenge over IHRA antisemitism definition in schools” by Oscar Rickett in Middle East Eye @uk_politics @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @Yemen@mastodon.social “The British government is being challenged legally over its recommendation for schools to adopt the contested IHRA definition of antisemitism. The Good Law Project launched a legal challenge against the government on Monday. The group’s executive director Jo Maugham told Middle East Eye he was worried that ‘rules which conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism… could be among the drivers of antisemitism’.” https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-government-facing-legal-challenge-over-ihra-antisemitism-definition-schools #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Government #UK #IHRA #Schools #Israel #Zionism #AntiSemitism #GoodLawProject #Bell #BellReport #Labour #Burnham #LabourFriendsOfGenocide #LabourFriendsOfIsrael #HierarchyOfRacism #HateSpeech #Islamophobia #Palestine #Censorship