Lord Bird
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Baroness Twycross (Lab)
That is a matter for the noble Baroness, Lady Jones. It is not up to me to say who should ask me questions.
Lord Bird (CB)
My Lords, can I ask a very simple question? It is 82 years since they first opened the camps that showed the abysmal way in which 6 million Jewish people were treated, yet 82 years later we are having a rise in antisemitism. Can we not have an analysis of why this is happening? All I find is people saying, “Yes, it’s going up”. Where is it coming from? Why is it that I talk to hundreds of young people who say, “I am not an antisemite. I am an anti-imperialist”. Where is this coming from?
Baroness Twycross (Lab)
I respect the noble Lord’s views. This Government will look at where the antisemitism is coming from and how best we can tackle it. I would say that we can best tackle it with a cross-government approach, but we also definitely need a cross-party approach to tackling the scourge of antisemitism.