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Hoenlein Criticizes Biden Antisemitism Strategy
(Jewish Insider) Josh Kraushaar - Malcolm Hoenlein, the longtime leader of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and its current vice chair, sharply criticized the Biden administration over its strategy to combat antisemitism on Monday. "I welcome the fact that the administration has issued a policy paper on antisemitism....I regret that the document did not adopt the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition. It endorsed [it] but it also endorsed a Nexus definition, which is very unhelpful and waters down the actual definition of antisemitism. So much so that the terrorist-backed CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] issued a statement welcoming the document." "But because they did not adopt [IHRA] and because they accepted the Nexus definition, CAIR feels they now have a license to say that anti-Zionism was not ruled to be antisemitism as it [says] in the IHRA definition." Hoenlein also called the recent Biden administration decision to halt funding to academic institutions in the West Bank a "boycott," and called on the administration to end the policy.