The government’s working group was set up by Angela Rayner, Reed’s predecessor, and is led by Dominic Grieve, a Conservative former minister. It was promised as a way to ensure parity, given there is already a government definition of antisemitism to tackle hatred directed against the Jewish community. When the government launched the working group, it was specifically tasked with deciding a non-statutory definition of “anti-Muslim hatred/ Islamophobia”. But Nick Timothy, a Conservative whip, said that the government’s decision could risk confusing “the protection of people from harm with the protection of religious ideas from scrutiny”. Writing in The Times,...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
