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The U.S. Antisemitism Strategy Has No Clothes

(Tablet) Rabbi Avi Weiss and Eitan Fischberger - The recently released U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism misses some of the key forces driving antisemitism today. The 60-page document offers a multiplicity of ways to counter the world's oldest hatred, including beefing up security for Jewish institutions and its emphasis on education. But its most serious flaw is that it lacks any real consideration of how anti-Zionism, the denial of the Jewish right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland, manifests as a politically correct version of antisemitism. It does so by including the fringe Nexus definition as a guide for identifying Jew-hatred, alongside the globally accepted IHRA working definition. While IHRA equates anti-Zionism with antisemitism, Nexus allows for opposition to the Jewish right to self-determination, opening the antisemitism loopholes that IHRA was intended to close, thereby rendering the endorsement of IHRA entirely meaningless.
2023-06-08 00:00:00
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