Sunak ‘weaponising antisemitism’ over Gaza, Jewish scholars warn

Why no reference to the JDA? Universities which adopt the IHRA definition are allowing a misconstruction as Stern himself has suggested.

This reminds me of the where people critical of Diversity, equity and inclusion policies and critical of political movements such as BDS, BLM and ideologies such as critical race theory are conflated with anti-black or people of colour racism. In addition, those who have medical arguments against children getting gender transition treatments are called hate mongers. We have been warned by many great academics like Jordan Peterson against the increasingly “dangerous and misleading tendency” of those who are conflating criticism of the ideologies with racism and hate speech.

We need to spend more time listening to other people's points of view, seeking to understand them before engaging in any kind of criticism of them. Apart from anything else, how do you present a coherent argument in refutation of an opinion until you know what it is and how it was derived? Of course, that makes the rash assumption that this opinion you don't agree with HAS a rational argument and evidence to back it up, but I prefer to think that other people have actually thought their views through and know why they hold the views that they do.