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By: Shiryn Ghermezian - March 16, 2021
The student government at the University of Texas at Austin unanimously passed a resolution on March 9 urging the school to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.
Resolution A.R. 09 calls on UT’s student government to do three things: commit to better address anti-Jewish sentiments on campus; adopt the IHRA definition for anti-Semitism; and issue “a pledge of support for better Jewish inclusion and protection.”
The resolution was penned by UT student Jordan Cope.
University enrollment exceeds 50,000 students with Jewish students comprising around 7 percent of the UT undergraduate body.
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