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UK govt faces legal challenge over antisemitism crackdown in schools

LONDON: A legal challenge has been launched against the UK government over its use of a contested definition of antisemitism. It came after the government announced plans to employ the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism to tackle a claimed rise of anti-Jewish incidents in British schools. The definition has long faced criticism for what critics describe as its conflation of anti-Israel beliefs with antisemitism. The legal challenge in the UK was