Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 59341

Antisemitism: Education

Tabled: 12 June 2025
Answered: 20 June 2025

Question

Sir Oliver Dowden

ConservativeHertsmere

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing mandatory education on antisemitism in schools.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
Schools and colleges are a place of protection, as well as education. There is no place for antisemitism in our society, and it is essential that Jewish students feel safe in education.The Holocaust is the only historic event which is compulsory within th...

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