In her October 2022 report to the General Assembly, the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, E. Tendayi Achiume, urged all States to “suspend the adoption and promotion of the working definition and the examples attached to it”, highlighting “the controversial status, divisive effects and negative human rights impacts” of the IHRA definition. Kenneth Stern has warned against its implementation as government policy, stating that it is likely to be utilized to suppress political speech and academic inquiry, and referring to its effects upon enactment as “McCarthy-like.”

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