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Thank you for contacting me about Israel Apartheid Week campaigns and anti-Semitism on campus.
Free speech is vital to the independence and innovation that embodies higher education, but no student should face discrimination, harassment or racism, including anti-Semitism. I am assured that the Government is committed to addressing anti-Semitism wherever it occurs, and I am encouraged that the UK became the first country to formally adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
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