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December 10, 2020

British Jewry’s Fight against Anti-Semitism, and Its Opponents

A supposed expert compares the universities that have allowed hatred of Jews to fester to victims of Soviet anti-Semitism.

Recently Britain’s Union of Jewish Students has been urging universities to adopt the “working definition of anti-Semitism” proffered by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which includes guidelines for distinguishing between mere criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism disguised in anti-Zionist clothing. Of course, the IHRA definition has its detractors, including David Feldman, himself the director of an academic center for the study of anti-Semitism. David Hirsh writes:

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