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The move – due to be announced by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick – comes after a record 1,652 anti-Semitic incidents were reported in the UK in 2018. Mr Jenrick, who today writes in the Sunday Express, will also unveil an extra £100,000 of funding to tackle anti-Semitic hatred online. Speaking to the Board of Deputies of British Jews tomorrow, Mr Jenrick is expected to say that institutions taking taxpayers’ money cannot duck signing up to the definition.
He will say: “Councils have a duty to stamp out anti-Semitism wherever they find it so it’s troubling that, in some cases, we’re seeing the reverse.
“I am also concerned with some of the stories coming out of our universities – Jewish students whose experiences on campus are not the same as everyone else’s.
“We wrote to many universities urging them to adopt the IHRA definition yet many didn’t reply.
“These organisations are recipients of public money. Failure to act is simply unacceptable.”
The rise of anti-Semitism in the UK has been largely fuelled by leftwing ideology and a criticism of Israel.
Earlier this month, Sheffield City Council was criticised for refusing to adopt the IHRA definition and recognising the state of Palestine instead.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has also faced accusations of anti-Semitism within the party. Jewish MP Luciana Berger quit Labour over the abuse while John Mann left after the party failed to tackle the issue.
Until September 2018, Mr Corbyn resisted allowing Labour to sign up to the IHRA definition because he did not accept that criticism of Israel was anti-Semitic.
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