LFI strongly welcomes the government’s new social cohesion strategy. New measures to tackle extremist abuse in the charity sector, antisemitism on campus and blocking hate preachers and extremists from entering the UK are the right steps to clamp down on rising extremism.
If we’re to stamp out near-historic levels of Jew-hate in the UK, we must go further and ensure the IHRA definition is adopted in full across all public bodies, with an independent reviewer established. The government should also take forward a new legal framework to allow organisations to be designated as “prohibited hate groups”.
These and further measures should form part of a new counter strategy to address long-term threats.
