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January 15, 2021

The Fight against a Working Definition of Anti-Semitism

Irrational arguments conceal hostility toward Israel.

In the UK, as in other European countries, there has been an effort by Jewish groups to encourage the government and public institutions to make use of the “working definition of anti-Semitism” proffered by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). This short document—intended not as an ironclad legal definition, but simply as a useful rubric for determining what is and isn’t anti-Semitic—has been adopted by some British universities, the Labor party (after much contention), and, for certain narrow purposes, by the U.S. government. But it also has its enemies, including eight lawyers who recently penned an open letter calling it an attack on freedom expression. Dave Rich begs to differ:

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