Anti-Semitism: Official definition will fight hatred - Theresa May - BBC

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Anti-Semitism: Official definition will fight hatred - Theresa May

Having one official definition of anti-Semitism will mean those guilty of hatred of Jews will be "called out on it", Theresa May will say later.

Police, councils, universities and public bodies can use the wording, the prime minister will say in a speech.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's hopes its definition, agreed this year, will be adopted globally.

The definition calls anti-Semitism "a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews."

It goes on: "Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities."

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