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UK reveals new extremism definition amid increased hate crimes against Jews, Muslims
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2024-03-14 | 04:02
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UK reveals new extremism definition amid increased hate crimes against Jews, Muslims
Britain unveiled a new definition of extremism on Thursday in response to an eruption of hate crimes against Jews and Muslims since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, although critics said the change risked infringing on freedom of speech.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned that Britain's multi-ethnic democracy was being deliberately undermined by both Islamist and far-right extremists, and more needed to be done to tackle the problem.
Antisemitic incidents rose by 147 percent in 2023 to record levels, fuelled by the Oct. 7 attacks, according to Community Security Trust, a Jewish safety watchdog. Tell Mama, a group which monitors anti-Muslim incidents, said last month that anti-Muslim hate crimes also had grown by 335 percent since the attacks.
"Today's measures will ensure that government does not inadvertently provide a platform to those setting out to subvert democracy and deny other people's fundamental rights," said Michael Gove, the communities minister who heads the department that produced the new extremism definition.
"This is the first in a series of measures to tackle extremism and protect our democracy," Gove said.
The new definition states that extremism "is the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance", that aims to destroy fundamental rights and freedoms; or undermine or replace the UK's liberal parliamentary democracy; or intentionally create an environment for others to achieve those results.
Britain already bans groups which it says are involved in terrorism, and supporting or being a member of these organisations is a criminal offence. The militant Palestinian group Hamas is among the 80 international organisations that are banned.
Groups which will be identified as extremist following a "robust" assessment over the next few weeks will not be subject to any action under criminal laws and will still be permitted to hold demonstrations.
But the government will not provide them with any funding or any other form of engagement. Currently, no groups have been officially defined as extremist using the former definition which has been in place since 2011.
Gove said in an interview on Sunday that some recent large-scale pro-Palestinian marches in central London had been organised by "extremist organisations", and people might choose not to support such protests if they knew they were giving credence to those groups.
Even before the new definition was announced, critics warned it could be counter-productive.
"The problem with a top-down definition of extremism is that it catches people who (we) don't want to catch," said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion.
"It may accidentally inhibit what we have very preciously in this country, an extraordinarily robust freedom of speech and ability to disagree strongly," Welby told BBC Radio on Wednesday.
More than 50 survivors or relatives of victims of Islamist attacks in Britain have also signed a letter accusing some politicians of playing into the hands of militants by "equating being Muslim with being an extremist."
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