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U.S. Unveils a National Plan to Fight Antisemitism

(New York Times) Elizabeth Williamson - The Biden administration released a national strategy for combating antisemitism on Thursday. "An attack on any one group of us is an attack on all of us," President Biden said in a videotaped announcement. In 2022, there were 3,697 reported incidents of antisemitic assault, harassment and vandalism in the U.S., according to the Anti-Defamation League, the largest number of incidents since ADL began its assessments in 1979. The strategy contains more than 100 recommendations for the federal government to take in the next year, including workshops to counteract bias in hiring and the workplace, enhanced Holocaust education programs, and an effort to eliminate barriers to reporting potential hate crimes. The national strategy sidesteps the debate over the definition of antisemitism. The strategy recognizes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of antisemitism, which was widely adopted by Western governments, calling the definition the "most prominent." However, it acknowledges the value of other definitions which do not cast criticism of Israel as antisemitic.
2023-05-29 00:00:00
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