Surely it’s not a question of whether they choose to accept it, but whether it is to be enshrined in the law of the land, as it is in the UK and Germany.

Good to see, hopefully this institutional pushback gives some extra mainstream legitimacy to the objection.

Progressive Jewish lobby group, the Jewish Council of Australia, challenged the use of the IHRA definition in the ongoing royal commission last week, arguing that it blurred the line between hate speech and political speech. Several other Jewish groups of much longer standing are solidly in favour of the definition, arguing it is a vital tool to help root out overt and coded antisemitism.