(Telegraph-UK) Gabriella Swerling - Protestors who chant the Hamas slogan "from the river to the sea" could be referred to police, Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has said. The chant is used by some to call for driving out all Jews from the region, as well as ethnic cleansing and genocide. Home Secretary Priti Patel said Hamas will be proscribed by the Government under the Terrorism Act. That means anyone who expresses support for Hamas, flies its flag or arranges meetings for the organization will be in breach of the law. Zahawi said that universities should clamp down following the outlawing of support for Hamas. Students who join in this chant "should be reported to the police and authorities." The Education Secretary said: "Any form of anti-Semitism, of prejudice, of promoting the murder of Jewish people, Jewish students, is, in my book, anti-Semitism and therefore universities should act on it." Zahawi also told university vice-chancellors that adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism was "essential," not optional. The number of universities adopting the definition has risen from 28 to 95 and Zahawi has warned the 10 universities yet to sign up that the Office for Students regulator is considering possible sanctions.
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