: Thank you for your statement, Minister. It's four
years ago this week that the Welsh Government adopted the
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of
antisemitism—a decision that I and all Members on
these benches very much welcomed. I think that taking leadership in
stepping forward like that, and taking hold of that definition and
applying it to an organisation is a really very important thing to
do. But, regrettably, there are many organisations, which are
funded by the Welsh Government, which have still declined to adopt
that particular working statement and definition of
antisemitism, including many of our universities.
Just down the road here, Cardiff University still has refused at
the moment, unfortunately, to adopt that particular statement.
Can I ask you, Minister, what action will the Welsh Government
take to proactively not just encourage people to adopt this
statement, where they are funded by the Welsh Government, but to
actually require them to adopt the definition, going forward?
Because I think it is time now to start taking a more radical
approach to deal with the sort of anti-Jewish
hatred that we're seeing, unfortunately, on some of our campuses.
(Minister for Social Justice): Well, certainly, that
is something that we would do anyway. The Wales race equality
action plan has a whole range of actions relating to education,
including higher education, and looking at these issues in
relation to the expectations we have of our higher education
institutions clearly is part of that in terms of the importance
of that definition. Thank you.
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